The April bandwidth showdown

[Computer Hope Admin]

Thought it could be fun for the upcoming month of April to have a friendly showdown to see who transfers (download and upload) the most bandwidth in that month.

To log and keep track of your bandwidth we'll be using NetMeter, a utility I'd assume some of you already have installed on your computer. Additional information about this utility and a download for those who do not have it installed but wish to participate can be found on the below link.

http://www.metal-machine.de/readerror/

Once installed, right-clicking in the window or on the icon in the Systray will allow you to gain access to the Totals. Within the totals is where you'll be able to see how much data you've transfered for the day, week, and month.

Example output:

Date          Download        Upload
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3/1/2008   185375912   11401825
3/2/2008   343077978   28885286
3/3/2008   368529917   35171878
3/4/2008   2455426117 112941577
3/5/2008   312785797   19126406

(205.19 MiB / 19.86 MiB)

At the end of April we'll declare a winner based off their results.

[Zylstra]

Sounds like a fun contest!

Would it be cheating to turn the cache file off for FireFox? That CH logo downloades as many times as I use the site in a day could really add up... (to about 1.98MB...)

I can only transfer 20GB a month without extra charges (fiber is a very shared connection, so, downloading a whole bunch of stuff can slow it down for others.. and when you have hundreds of people doing that, it can become a problem, but, it usually never goes below 10MBPS)

[Computer Hope Admin]

Pretty tricky turning off your browsers cache. I don't think it would be cheating, although I think it would be more interesting to use your computer as you normally would and browsing with your cache turned off isn't too normal.

[Zylstra]

Hmm... well, I will just leave cache on then.
(Probably wouldent do it in the first place for bandwidth considerations)

1.65GB transferred over the last three days so far..

[SilentAssasin64]

Depending on the day I can get a few gigs in an hour.  This shall be interesting  .

[Broni]

Dang! I just noticed this thread, and installed NetMeter. I'm waaaaaay behind.

[SilentAssasin64]

Wait, this is for the month of April, right?  Not March?

[Computer Hope Admin]

Yes April.

[Broni]

I installed NetMeter on 3/17 only, but I managed, so far U/D at 8.43GB

[Zylstra]

My computer gave me the BSOD again, and I lost the log..

That kind of sucks.

I hope it doesnt happen in April when the competition starts.

[Broni]

Oh, I didn't notice, it's for April, so I'm OK.

[Computer Hope Admin]

Dang I'm impressed Broni with that much data transfer already. For the full month of March I'm at 495MB UL - 5.8GB DL - Total 6.32GiB

[Tranc3r]

hey wht about timezone!! people will get head start!

April 1st, 2008 12:00AM (0:00) doesn't happen at once!

[Computer Hope Admin]

True. But we'll just go off what NetMeter is showing for the full month and everywhere has the same amount of time for a full month.

[Tranc3r]

heh alrite