[FRIAM] Net monitoring softwares

[Nick Thompson]

Hello, all, 

 

Greetings from the mosquito infested bog. 

 

You remember that my situation, here, in the third world (rural
Massachusetts), I have the "last mile" problem, so am dependent on a Verizon
hotspot for my data connection.  Verizon, of course, is devious, venal, and
rapacious, and every once in a while claims I have downloaded 4 gigs and
bills me accordingly, even though we never load moving images, etc. 

 

In this connection I have been trying out Net Monitoring softwares. 

 

Does anybody have experience with these?  I have Net Balancer loaded now,
but perhaps Net Limiter is better?  By the way, CAN I safely download
programs from Cnet or Techspot?

 

Net Balancer is run by some guy named Rusian in Moldova.  How much do I
trust? 

 

The only use to which I have put it, so far, is to give me statistics on my
data use per day.  On the Day that Verizon claims I used 4 G, Net Balancer
says I used barely 400 megs, so it's "on" with Verizon.  Anybody else in
this situation?  

 

Paranoically yours, 

 

Nick

 

 

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

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