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Monitor Your Bandwidth Usage

by Jon Chase on December 7, 2009 at 06:45 AM


Care to know exactly how much you procrastinate by watching Web videos all day? Download a bandwidth meter and you'll learn how much you use in a day, what speeds you actually get (despite what your service provider may claim), and -- if you have metered billing -- when to call it quits.

For Windows, check out the now open source NetMeter. (Note: it may not work with Vista.)

For Macs, try SurplusMeter, also free and open source.

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