Need a good internet traffic/usage tool for mobile wireless dongle (HUAWEI E1762)

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Hi All

Yesterday I got my “Mobile Wireless Dongle” HUAWEI E1762.
(for those living in OZ, the network provider is TPG)

I activated it via “Network Manager”, a little bit of guessing and comparing the settings with the windows installation guide and it worked “out-of-the-box” so to speak !!lol!

Great work (!!!) the guys writing the “Network Manager” have done !:good:

Since mobile surfing is expensive and not wanting to exceed my limit…

What would be a good Network usage/statistics tracking tool ?

KtrafficerAnalyser is not that great.

Thanks and cheers

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Hi
I would suggest using your providers web page in the first instance to
see traffic usage as that’s what the will base the billing on :wink:

You could use snmp to check the interface stats, it will give both tcp
and udp traffic which I’m assuming gets counted.

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Hi Malcolm

I would suggest using your providers web page in the first instance to
see traffic usage as that’s what the will base the billing on

You are right ! That is the easiest and accurate way.

I configured Ktrafficanalyser to start automatically. It has its problems by loosing the interface config when switching off the mobile broad band.
…however it gives some indication.

Thanks for the reply and cheers from OZ