Once BitMeter OS is installed on your computer you can monitor your connection usage either via a web browser, or by using the command line tools. The Web Interface displays various graphs and charts that show how your Internet / network connection has been used over time:
BitMeter OS Installation:
Installation of BitMeter OS is really very simple, just down the .deb file 32bit | 64bit and double click this downloaded file to install BitMeter OS.
After sucessful installation you can access the BitMeter OS web interface using any web-browser: http://localhost:2605
BitMeter OS runs in the background, on a local web server on port 2605, this allows you to be cross-platform, since it can run on any platform that can run a web server.
BitMeter OS got the following web interface:
* The Monitor pane displays a graph that updates once each second, showing you what's happening with your connection right now
* The Query pane lets you have detailed information about your bandwidth usage on any date/s that you specify
* The History pane illustrates how your connection usage has changed over the last few hours, days, and months
OS BitMeter fully customized to configure alerts to know when such a peak, and has a calculator for data / time useful to know how long we take to get off the internet or upload something.
The following commands will stop/start/restart the OS BitMeter Web Interface in Linux (these must be executed from a Terminal Window)
sudo /etc/init.d/bitmeterweb stopyou can also check vnstat which monitor your data transfer - here
sudo /etc/init.d/bitmeterweb start
sudo /etc/init.d/bitmeterweb restart