http://laugks.org/forums/tags/bandwidth The LAUG 2.0 Member Community en-US Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:30:12 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://laugks.org/forums/search.php http://laugks.org/forums/topic/software-to-track-bandwidth-and-associated-programs#post-41 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:15:28 +0000 teacher24_70 41@http://laugks.org/forums/ <p>Does anyone know of any software that will track my download (received) bandwidth and the programs that are using it?</p> <p>This past month something has been zapping bandwidth like crazy. Most months I use less than 10 Gig of my 15 available through Sunflower. In March I actually came close to my limit with 14.5 GB. </p> <p>However, in April I’m already up to 23.25 with 10-11 GB on April 4th alone. I called Sunflower right after that 10 Gig day and said that I wasn’t sure where that could have come from. I hadn’t had any large iTunes downloads, I hadn’t watched any streaming TV shows or movie videos, I hadn’t download any major software, etc. The only thing that I did that day that I could think of was that I had installed Foxmarks/Xmarks to synchronize bookmarks between Safari & Firefox. It’s possible that the syncing stalled out at some point and continued to zap the bandwidth, but I’m not completely convinced</p> <p>They agreed to credit my account for that 10 GB, but even subtracting that I’m using more than I can mentally account for. I’m to the point that I’ve turned Airport off unless I need to turn it on temporarily to check mail or update my RSS feeds. Someone suggested that I turn off the Genius feature in iTunes because it sometimes eats up bandwidth.</p> <p>So I began to search for software that might help me track down the culprit application. I thought that maybe “Little Snitch” would help, but it only seems to document outgoing information.</p> <p>Istat Menus help a little. The Network Menu at least tracks and shows current bandwidth activity, but what I’d really like is something that tracks the sent/received bandwidth for different programs. For example, bandwidth associated with NetNewsWire, iTunes, Entourage, Safari, Firefox, etc.</p> <p>Does anyone know if such a software exists?</p> <p>-- Michelle </p>