Does your ISP Bill you Right?

Bitmeter is a bandwidth and Internet connection speed monitoring utility that ensures you get speeds and bandwidth as promised by your ISP and you do not exceed your monthly quota

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

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Bitmeter 2 is a bandwidth measurement and Internet connection speed monitoring utility that lets you visually monitor the Internet connection by displaying a real-time floating scrolling graph on the desktop which shows your upload and download speed over a period of time. It keeps all information about how much you have uploaded and downloaded since you started using Bitmeter. It also provides an option to back up all data and traffic history.

Applies To: Personal users Price: Free USP: Bandwidth and speed monitoring Primary Link: http://codebox.no-ip.net Google Keywords: Bandwidth Meter

Bitmeter comes with a Web interface through which you can remotely monitor your connection speed remotely through a Web browser. Another interesting feature Bitmeter has is ISP restriction, which can be useful if you have data download and upload restrictions from your ISP. This feature can be used to ensure that you do not exceed your monthly limit or alert you when you near your monthly quota. It can be configured to monitor total or download only traffic. A calculator is present to help you find out how long it takes to download or upload something or how much you can download or upload in a given time. You can configure Bitmeter to alert you through sound and message notifications as and when a certain event occurs.

Installing and using Bitmeter is simple. It requires Microsoft .NET framework 1.1 or later to be already installed.

When Bitmeter is run, it keeps a float window on the desktop, which shows live graphs and details of data being downloaded as well as uploaded. To enable Bitmeter's Web interface, go to Settings from Bitmeter's system tray. In the new window, select 'Web Server' and provide the IP
address for the Web server and other information. Now click on OK.

Bitmeter provides details of data downloaded/uploaded; you can even set ISP restrictions and alerts

Now open the Web browser and see bandwidth statistics from anywhere on the network. To see a summary of the network activity, go to Statistics Grid. Here you can get all historical details of data downloaded as well as uploaded on hourly, daily or monthly basis. All this helps you calculate whether your ISP bils you right.

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