Those who don’t have an unlimited Internet connection has to keep
track of their bandwidth to prevent over usage. A lot of people use
desktop bandwidth monitoring softwares, but as you might have already
found out, they are far from accurate. So you always have to rely on
the data provided by your ISP. For Firefox users here are two useful
addons that will enable you to keep track of your Internet usage from
within Firefox.
The first one is Net Usage Item
that fetches usage statistics from the web page provided by the ISP and
displays a handy progress bar showing your usage in Firefox’s toolbar.
This addon is mainly targeted towards Australian ISPs. However, this
meter can be adapted for any country’s ISP who provides the data usage
in an XML feed - but that requires some knowledge on JavaScript.
Net
Usage Item supports 38 Australian ISPs and additional ISP packs are
available that adds support for a couple of ISPs from Belgium, New
Zealand, Canada, Ukraine and Indian (Reliance).
For Indian BSNL Dataone and MTNL TriBand users, there is another addon - DataFox.
DataFox fetches net usage information from the respective ISP’s web
pages and displays it as a small bar in Firefox’s status bar.
Additional information is available in the tooltip. Statusbar and
tooltip strings are completely customizable.
The
progress bar gives you an idea of the amount of bandwidth from your
monthly limit already consumed. Different color codes will alert you
whenever you over-limit for a particular day. This will help keep your
bandwidth usage in check.
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