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SurplusMeter--formerly known as NetTracker--keeps a close eye on your bandwidth use. This utility lets you set a bandwidth limit, a start day of the month, and a connection type (such as PPP Modem or Network Card).
SurplusMeter also calculates a daily allowance and reconfigures that depending on how much you've actually used for the month. The interface is simple and uncluttered, but it also lacks the alarms and graphs found in similar Windows apps. Progress bars help track the days left in the month, the download megabyte count, and the total downloaded and uploaded, and you can easily make manual changes. SurplusMeter should appeal to any users suffering under bandwidth caps, or who just want to know how much they're downloading and uploading.
Publisher's Description
From SkoobySoft:
If you have a broadband service with a monthly download limit, you may find SurplusMeter comes in handy. It measures the download and upload traffic on your Internet connection and keeps a record of your traffic volume. It gives you all kinds of useful output statistics, like daily allowance, average daily usage, accumulated surplus, and more. SurplusMeter runs invisibly in the background most of the time, but can present its interface on demand. SurplusMeter is open-source, and is released under the GNU General Public Licence.
What's new in this version:
- Added support for Ethernet adaptors.
- Simplified interface for manually adding/deducting bytes.
- Fixed a bug which caused measuring to stop after about 4 GB traffic in a short period.
- Fixed an issue which prevented SurplusMeter working on some new Mac models.
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All versions:
4.4 starsout of 5 votes
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Current version:
4.3 starsout of 3 votes
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"Excellent to track usage"
Version: SurplusMeter 2.0.3
Pros
easy to use
Cons
being able to track usage on a daily basis would be a benefit
Summary
Highly recommend for broadband, dialup or internet stick monitoring
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"nice product"
Version: SurplusMeter 2.0.3
Pros
best software i can figure out for this purpose
Cons
nothing of importance
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"Good monitor of usage for those on limited broadband"
Version: SurplusMeter 2.0.3
Pros
Gives useful stats about your usage, easy to install and it works on a Mac!!
Cons
The only thing I don't like is the inability to have the window open over other windows even when not the active app. Activity monitor and Itunes have this feature
Summary
I use Airport for my broadband connection and networking to my other Macs and a PC, it would be handy if the program could discriminate between internet traffic and network traffic. I've only used it for a week but so far it works unobtrusively in the background does not noticeably affect speed.
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