A comcast-related bandwidth related internet question

psycroptic · 2011-07-17 07:03:18

Hi folks. Props to this distro, I've used it for ~5 years as a server OS and it's been Aristotelianly beautiful.

I'm on a Comcast internet connection and have recently moved into a house with 4 other roomates. I heard a story recently about someone who exceeded the Comcast 250GB bandwith cap for two months straight only to be banned from using Comcast for a year. Comcast is the only high-speed internet provider in our area, and despite the monumentally shitty corporation that is Comcast would be disappointed to have this ban happen. Can anyone recommend a simple way to monitor the data amount of traffic going through my server? I'm using iptables as a routing firewall system, maybe something within it can log byte amounts? Or another program maybe?

Suggestions would be welcome. Thanks

stlarch · 2011-07-17 07:16:09

Couldn't you just login to your account on their website and access it that way. (Thank you Captain Obvious)

whitethorn · 2011-07-17 13:43:22

Hey, you could try using vnstat.

pacman -S vnstat

Here's a link to the homepage. http://humdi.net/vnstat/

psycroptic · 2011-07-17 19:41:37

whitethorn wrote:

Hey, you could try using vnstat.
pacman -S vnstat
Here's a link to the homepage. http://humdi.net/vnstat/

that looks great man, i'll check that out. Thanks a lot.

stlarch wrote:

Couldn't you just login to your account on their website and access it that way. (Thank you Captain Obvious)

Thanks for being a jerk, I really appreciate that.

Last edited by psycroptic (2011-07-17 20:00:30)

Haptic · 2011-07-17 20:11:41

It's better for you to login and check which comcast directly. Their bandwidth monitor isn't always accurate and that's what they go by.

Last edited by Haptic (2011-07-17 20:11:54)

psycroptic · 2011-07-17 20:17:14

Word, i'll consider that.

stlarch · 2011-07-18 05:55:22

psycroptic wrote:

Thanks for being a jerk, I really appreciate that.

Jerk? Fine! I'm leaving then! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VbI5zcB8Ac

ANOKNUSA · 2011-07-23 18:31:11

Comcast does only allow one warning before disconnect but, according to their official policy, they only go after the greatest offenders. In my household of three with constant connections, we've gone over every month for quite a while...

...and never gotten a nasty letter of phone call. It's a giant nation-wide company, so going after every user who goes over just isn't feasible. The two times I've come across someone on a web forum who got a stern phone call, one person used about 700 gigs and the other 1.4 terabytes in a month, which is just insane.

lifeafter2am · 2011-07-23 18:44:32

Some router firmware (DD-WRT, OpenWRT, pfSense) will let you monitor incoming and outgoing bandwidth. Are you using your server as your router as well?

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