In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

4x almost nothing anyway

Is it? Then 1 x is even less! So, why even bother doing a moderate calculation on it if it so insignificant?

It's a waste of time cuz the last 1h 53s is an unrepresentative sample of the month

sry all ,all i was asking was how to tell the usage in gigs, any new firmware that does it, like the speedtouch does?

Sorry for bothering to give someone an example of the calculation that would let them work things out for themselves in the future. Perhaps it is better to offer no help at all people

plz keep up thr great work u do, tbbmeter up and running tyvm

& I am sorry you took it that way and not in the spirit of the debate it was meant to be

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

In the 1 hour 53 seconds the link was connected, you averaged

683Bytes per second, which is a total of

3653 * 683 / 1000 = 2494KB downloaded, or 2.4MB or 0.0024GB

NOTE If the router resyncs the average is reset. Which Netgear router, the newer ones e.g. DGN2200 have a propert usage counter in them.

I tried doing that maths a while ago and got into all sorts of muddles. Routers tend to convert B/s into KB/s by dividing by 1000, as you've done. The first problem I encountered was whether to use 1000 or 1024 to convert KB and MB to GB. The Netgear uses 1024 in its telnet interface.
Tx: 52314367 (49.8 MiB)
Rx: 630758880 (601.5 MiB)


The second "issue" I encountered was whether or not the ISP monitors (and counts) packet overheads.

John.

In reply to a post by John_ON:

The Netgear uses 1024 in its telnet interface.
Tx: 52314367 (49.8 MiB)
Rx: 630758880 (601.5 MiB)

What Telnet command did you use to get this output?

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

In reply to a post by John_ON:

The Netgear uses 1024 in its telnet interface.
Tx: 52314367 (49.8 MiB)
Rx: 630758880 (601.5 MiB)

What Telnet command did you use to get this output?

ifconfig

It produces details of the various interfaces. The WAN interface will be ppp0 (or nas0 for LLU)

nas0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:24:17:1F:7B:E2  
          inet addr:94.195.abc.def  Bcast:94.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.252.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:480791 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:289562 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
         RX bytes:631133627 (601.8 MiB)  TX bytes:53444175 (50.9 MiB)

The actual layout in my first post was copied from RouterStats's interpretation.

John.

In reply to a post by John_ON:

RX bytes:631133627 (601.8 MiB)  TX bytes:53444175 (50.9 MiB)

The actual layout in my first post was copied from RouterStats's interpretation.

I think that's what the OP was after.

Does Routerstats accumulate these data even if the router is reset?

In reply to a post by John_ON:

The first problem I encountered was whether to use 1000 or 1024 to convert KB and MB to GB.

I'd doubt it makes much odds for this purpose. However, as OP is interested in comparing with a cap, it would be safer to use K = 1000 etc.

Strictly speaking nowadays:

• MiB means 1024 KiB
• MB means 1000 KB