I might have to use a monthly capped internet. So before I do that I want to fin

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I might have to use a monthly capped internet. So before I do that I want to find out the average amount of data I download and upload over the internet in any given day, such that the software starts recording when the OS boots up till the point it's shutdown. This way I will have an idea of need of my usage needs per-day and then from there on calculate for a month.

It would be nice if it does the monthly forecasts too but that's not a rigid requirement.

What software should I use to achieve the above on a Linux (Ubuntu 13.10)?

Explanation / Answer

While looking for such a software over the internet I found the article How to Monitor Your Internet Usage So You Don't Exceed Your Data Cap. It suggested the use of ntop, which could be installed using:

sudo apt-get install ntop

ntop currently start on start-up and automatically logs the network usage of every network device that is specified at the time of installation (eth0, wlan0 etc) by date, month and year. Data usage can be monitored at http://localhost:3000. In short it does the job.

Lot's of feature won't be summarizing it here.

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