Looking For A Simple Bandwidth Monitor

Hi there

@Mystere

I think any ISP will have a tool which shows how much you've used for the current month -- could be wrong - don't know about comcast but I'm sure if there's a cap / monthly allowance they should provide a tool to let you check how much you've used and also warn you say when you've used 80% or so of your limit.

I also agree typical users won't use 1 TB monthly at the moment - but remember with services like Amazon Prime, Netflix etc offering more streaming programs in full 4K UHD and some even in 8K UHD a 1TB limit can seem quite stingy in the future.

A typical 1 Hr Video in 4K UHD probably uses around 7 - 8 GB per hour on Netflix - and much more on 8K UHD.
So 100 Hrs of 4kUHD TV per month would swallow up your bandwidth --- remember also while 100 hrs of TV a month might seem idiotic to some -- a lot of households have more than 1 person viewing Netflix so you could find the 1TB swallowed up very quickly.

In these days of streaming ISP's really should get away from capped bandwidth amounts as demand for higher amounts will increase probably exponentially. 5G should help as well .

Cheers
jimbo

AlainCh2 said:

First : I think this post was about real time bandwidth monitoring
Second: Bandwith USAGE is another kettle of fish and was introduced by Mystere

I do agree, Jimbo; with you on Usage. Here in Italy Cap disappeared years ago on land, and it will disappear soon on Mobile network.
Some offers are already unlimited, while other ranges 50G 100G 200G. Two years ago max was 4G (monthly speaking).

I never used much, but the change in my use of internet started last year.
Lot of tech content are now in video format instead of written.

Most DYI is on video

Alain

Hi there

we don't either -- in any case population too small here to worry about Bandwidth etc (approx 300,00 total for whole country) - however I think USA people still seem to get bad deals on Broadband and mobiles which is surprising since there in theory should be more competition and they do drive a lot of innovation.

Cheers
jimbo

I suppose everything is Business model.
When a population accept and get used to pay on the kilo (on the pound?)
it's easier to force them to pay per Gigabyte.

That never worked in Italy, what you have to pay for .. People just don't use it or refrain to use or to get it.

If big conglomerate want this Italian people's money is just to offer them something that seems "free"

New operator "Iliad" offer:
unlimited phone calls, SMS and 50G for 7€ 30 days
(with no tie - pay 1 month only when you need to use it)

Alain