How do I understand what my Local Area Connection Status window is telling me?

Asked by DaphneT (5750

) September 15th, 2014

In the Activity block it says Sent – Received and below those it gives numbers such as 5,854,484 bar 37,021,120. What do these numbers really mean? What do they really track? How do I use them to keep track of how much is downloaded over my residential broadband connection?

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I believe that is in Bytes. I am not on a Windows machine to check. 5,854,484B is around 5.8 MB. Which is around the size of loading Fluther 7 times (cache excluded). These numbers should be reset every-time you disconnect or reboot so it isn’t a good way of measuring your monthly usage if your ISP imposes a cap.

If you want to keep a running total you will want to find something like ~~vnstat for Windows.~~

All those suggestions are not very good since they seem php based. I would look around for something that does it. There certainly must be something that isn’t malware.

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