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QUESTION POSED ON: 12 May 2004
Is there any mechanism or software through which I can monitor how much we are uploading and downloading? Our telecommunication company charges us on uploads and downloads and we'd like to verify their figures.

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With an eye to meeting your requirements at the least cost, I would suggest that you consider ntop http://www.ntop.org/ as an effective open source alternative (and inexpensive too – all versions are free – something like $70 for Windows). Augmenting that with MRTG http://www.mrtg.org might also be useful depending on what equipment you have access to.


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