Bandwidth Monitoring

[Guest SephirothX]

I'm concerned about my bandwidth usage right now. My Android device appears to be using about 30mb per day even when I'm not using it. I mean I looked at it at 1:45am with Net Counter and it was already at 2.5mb for today despite me not using the phone. I don't know where all my bandwidth is going. My phone had alerted me to a new Twitter mention but Twitter doesn't take that much bandwidth, it's all text after all. This morning I disabled automatic updating on the few apps that had it set to do that but even then my phone used many mbs over the course of the day without me using it for more than a minute (which didn't use much as I checked before and after).

I've managed to use nearly 400mb since I got the phone about 8 days ago and I don't know where. 300mb of that is wifi which has been used at home. If I didn't have it hooked up to wifi my £20 credit the phone came with would have all went within a day. Of course I plan to get off Orange once my credit does run out but that doesn't mean I want to waste it. I've had to buy a 250mb extra for now.

So where is this bandwidth going? Is there an application I can use to monitor how much bandwidth each application uses? Net Counter only gives totals which is no use for discovering which hungry apps are using a ton of bandwidth. All of the bloat that came with the phone is gone, I upgraded to 2.2 and installed the apps I'd use.

[Guest t0mm13b]

I'm concerned about my bandwidth usage right now. My Android device appears to be using about 30mb per day even when I'm not using it. I mean I looked at it at 1:45am with Net Counter and it was already at 2.5mb for today despite me not using the phone. I don't know where all my bandwidth is going. My phone had alerted me to a new Twitter mention but Twitter doesn't take that much bandwidth, it's all text after all. This morning I disabled automatic updating on the few apps that had it set to do that but even then my phone used many mbs over the course of the day without me using it for more than a minute (which didn't use much as I checked before and after).

I've managed to use nearly 400mb since I got the phone about 8 days ago and I don't know where. 300mb of that is wifi which has been used at home. If I didn't have it hooked up to wifi my £20 credit the phone came with would have all went within a day. Of course I plan to get off Orange once my credit does run out but that doesn't mean I want to waste it. I've had to buy a 250mb extra for now.

So where is this bandwidth going? Is there an application I can use to monitor how much bandwidth each application uses? Net Counter only gives totals which is no use for discovering which hungry apps are using a ton of bandwidth. All of the bloat that came with the phone is gone, I upgraded to 2.2 and installed the apps I'd use.

For a start try my suggestions:

1. Obtain Droidwall (A firewall)
   
2. Obtain 3G Watchdog (If you like)
   

Combine those two and you've a nice way of blocking outgoing traffic using Droidwall and secondly monitoring the bandwidth and making sure you don't go over the limit.

Both of these can be obtained from the market place :blink:

That IMHO is the best way to go :huh:

[Guest SephirothX]

For a start try my suggestions:

1. Obtain Droidwall (A firewall)
   
2. Obtain 3G Watchdog (If you like)
   

Combine those two and you've a nice way of blocking outgoing traffic using Droidwall and secondly monitoring the bandwidth and making sure you don't go over the limit.

Both of these can be obtained from the market place :blink:

That IMHO is the best way to go :huh:

3G Watch Dog sounds similar to Net Counter but not sure if you can set the latter to make sure you don't go over the limit. I'll give it a check.

Droidwall could be interesting but it will be annoying unblocking an app every time I want to use it. Surely there's a way to find out which apps are consuming the majority of my bandwidth and then stop them. Though I suppose I could do some testing with Droidwall, say unblock everything except one app and see how much bandwidth is getting used, then repeat with the next app. But that could take a while for the 15 or so I've installed plus the default Google apps.

Between posting this thread and sleeping my bandwidth had shot up to 13mb for the day and it's just gone 10am.