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[G-Flex]

I'm at roughly 23 gigs in the last five days. That's typical for my families usage, really.

Some ISPs have a (usually somewhat hidden) page on their websites that tell you what your usage is. Some don't. You might be able to query your DNS (I'm using OpenDNS, for example) to get some transfer data.

I've considered using a network monitoring utility to keep track of that stuff for me, but I've never bothered to investigate any of them.

Out of curiosity, what could a DNS server possibly know about your data transfer habits? All they do is resolve names. No traffic actually goes through them.

[Nadaka]

If you have a good router you can set it up to ration your bandwidth.

Mine can set  daily, weekly, monthly, etc limits for each IP or MAC address on the local network and can either disable access or throttle it after that.

I have bandwidth issues myself, I seed torrents for a couple dozen open source projects including the last 4? versions of ubuntu with a ratio of around >150/1. But most of that is outbound and I don't think that it is capped in any way.

edit: Even less advanced routers should be able to provide a running total of network usage with varying degrees of detail.

Just log into your router as admin and poke around to see what you can do.

[blackmagechill]

You surpass a....100 gigabyte.....that's at lest five thousand megabyte.....limit. What the fuck is happening? I ahve a 500mb limit, so I can't even update windows. You're crazy (turn off windows update and then disable steam through task manager.)

What you said isn't wrong, it's just off by ninety-five thousand.
I'm sorry, I just had to point that out.

Still, 100 GB is a whole lot more than you should be downloading, no matter the time frame (unless it's something silly like a year).

It's at least ten  times what I have for a download limit was my point.

[Starver]

Most of the people I know find the binary prefix names extremely irritating and impossible to take seriously. Normally, if I have to distinguish, I specify "binary megabytes" and so forth. Just saying.

I was just being accurate.  For the most part I'd probably avoid the binary prefix (if necessary, by sticking with the 10^3Nversion, also slightly easier for top-of-the-head maths), but every now and again you get programmes being "binary strict" and so a bit of ready-reckoning is brought into play.

What's worse is when the programmer somehow manages to give as MB the number of 1,000 KiB (or 1,024 KB).

And I probably write "Mb" more often than I should, when I mean MB, on top of possibly ignoring whether I really mean a binary or decimal magnitude.  One of the things I'm not so perfectionist about, even while knowing what is more strictly correct.

[Fayrik]

That's the SI definition.

Wait. There's a definition. A definition that isn't in base 1024? I realised that Hard Drive manufacturer's worked their marketing out that way, but I never knew anyone else genuinely used that definition. (I'll admit, I'll use it when giving a rough estimate, but if I want a figure that's accurate to the tens, I'll use base 1024.)

As to the problem posed by the OP. Comodo Firewall will let you see what programs are accessing the internet, and how much data they have sent and recieved.

[G-Flex]

That's the SI definition.

Wait. There's a definition. A definition that isn't in base 1024? I realised that Hard Drive manufacturer's worked their marketing out that way, but I never knew anyone else genuinely used that definition. (I'll admit, I'll use it when giving a rough estimate, but if I want a figure that's accurate to the tens, I'll use base 1024.)

Yes. "Mega" and "Kilo" (and so forth) are used in all SI units, and they refer to powers of 10 (or rather, 1000), not powers of 2.

Of course, the binary prefixes just happen to have the same names, except for when the alternatives (such as MiB for Mebibyte) are used. Of course, nobody I know actually uses those. Seriously, try to say "pebibit" and "gibibyte" out loud with a straight face. It's just embarrassing.

[kg333]

NetLimiter 2 Monitor.  It doesn't play particularly nice when installing on Win 7 x64, but once you get it installed, it's fantastic.  It'll provide breakdowns of how much bandwidth a program and each of its child processes is using at any given time, plus hourly, weekly, monthly, and annual logs of overall usage for each program.  Here's an example for Steam on my machine:



Great program, highly recommended.

KG