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I recently heard that comcast is limiting bandwidth usage to 250gb/month and other isp's could go as low as 5gb/month. I was looking online for bandwidth usage monitors, to see how much internet bandwidth i was using, but all of them are complicated and not what i was looking for. Is there a simple bandwidth monitor that I can use that'll tell me how much bandwidth i use every day (or month). Better yet, one that can go in my router and see how much bandwidth is used by all pc's combined. Thanks in advance for your help.

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wanted a simple daily/monthly count and, ideally, a single router-side total for the whole LAN. correctly noted that desktop utilities exist, and rightly pointed out that a true network-wide total needs to be measured at the gateway. The guidance below gives two practical, low-effort paths (per-host and gateway) plus important cautions so the totals are actually useful when matching an ISP bill.

For single machines: use a lightweight traffic-meter that shows cumulative daily and monthly totals and can auto‑reset on the ISP billing date. This is the fastest way to see whether a particular PC is the heavy user. These apps are trivial to install and run in the background, but they only account for the host they run on and will miss phones, consoles, smart TVs, and guest devices.

For whole-network visibility: collect counters at the gateway. First check the router admin UI for any “traffic meter,” per‑IP accounting, or SNMP/NetFlow export and set its monthly reset to the ISP billing date. If the stock firmware lacks persistent per‑IP counters, consider replacing the gateway with a router OS or small appliance that supports persistent accounting and export (or use a cheap single-board computer as the gateway). Another advanced option is port‑mirroring on a managed switch to a collector for byte-accurate capture. In all gateway approaches, export/graphing (RRD/MRTG/Influx+Grafana or a simple collector) makes daily/monthly totals easy to read.

Cautions: router counters and ISPs don’t always measure traffic the same way (overhead from PPPoE, VPNs, or tunneling can differ). Always align the counter reset time to the ISP billing cycle and compare router totals against the ISP’s usage portal before assuming a discrepancy. Replacing router firmware or switching gateways carries a hardware/compatibility risk—backup configs and read device compatibility notes before making changes. These steps give reliable, repeatable daily and monthly counts without excessive complexity.

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www.bandwidthmonitorpro.com It works as you require but it's a 30 day trial.

If you find one for the entire network, please post it back...

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If you want a network wide count of the bandwidth, then this would have to be done at the router. If you monitor a single PC, then you might be missing all the xbox /ps3 downloads, wifi traffic, etc...

DD-WRT is not for the feint of heart, but it provides an excellent bandwidth counter that graphs in/out traffic over time. THat's the type of solution you need to get the answers you are looking to get.

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