Comments on: Bandwidth monitoring tool needed.

Question: Bandwidth monitoring tool needed.

jammnrose — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:39:06 -0800

I'm looking for a bandwidth monitoring tool for OSX. I need it to do some specific things.

I need it to do these things:
Keep track of the bandwidth used in the past 24 hours (ie, a rolling count by the minute).
Monitor internal and external bandwidth separately.
Monitor Airport/Ethernet separately/singly.
Any ideas? Thanks.

By: shr1n1

shr1n1 — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:53:33 -0800

Try MenuMeters. It does not have a logging function if you are looking for that.

By: majick

majick — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:02:39 -0800

netstat should be able to give you the data you want on a per-interface basis.

By: jammnrose

jammnrose — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:45:01 -0800

Ideally it would be a dashboard widget.

By: TheNewWazoo

TheNewWazoo — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:59:11 -0800

Uhm, methinks you misunderstand dashboard widgets, which only run when the dashboard is active.

By: D.C.

D.C. — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:56:35 -0800

Yes, but a widget can display data collected/generated by another program. There are widgets that display network stats, but they don't do everything the poster needs.