Comments on: How to Monitor Bandwidth on a Mac

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:21:34 +0000

Maybe this is a dumb question. Does the SurplusMeter application itself need to be running for it to monitor usage? Or, once it’s run, will the SurplusMeterAgent continue to run and monitor traffic?

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 23:00:10 +0000

Not working on my Mountain Lion, 10.8.2. Anyone know of a bug fix?

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 22 May 2012 10:15:02 +0000

Actually it is working for me on Lion (v2.0.3)

By: Instruktor

Instruktor — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:11:46 +0000

SurplusMeter Still no work on OS Lion!

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By: sea

sea — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:02:22 +0000

Has OsX discovered a tool, that solves the limitation of this tool – its now march 2012?

limitation identified:
“The main problem I see with SurplusMeter is that it doesn’t seem to differentiate between local network and internet traffic.”

cause, i did not realise this, and been freaking for months, and stop DL cause i thought i was at limit….

thanks for post. very helpful

By: dinadana

dinadana — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:43:42 +0000

If you want to save your network use ProteMac Meter – monitoring all your activity.
http://www.protemac.com/Meter/

By: Michael Rygaard

Michael Rygaard — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:23:00 +0000

there is no easy way ( you cant )

By: mattone

mattone — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:56:47 +0000

How can one determine bandwidth use per client machine using Time Capsule (Airport) as a router?

Thanks,
Matt

By: Michael Rygaard

Michael Rygaard — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:08:21 +0000

well you cant conneckt your +apple tv nas via etherhet and your internet wia wifi, and use both at the same time… also even if you could, what would the point be of having wifi, if you still had to use a cabel ?

I used to live in Greenland were there were a 2gb cap ( and that costed 200$ us, pr month) so when I saw a 10gb use I was verry worried… but it was only to my apple tv from my computer… PHEW…

By: Alberto

Alberto — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:28:30 +0000

As you can choose the connection type I am not sure that if you choose “Ethernet port” it will consider any wireless connection……

By: Armstrong

Armstrong — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:44:45 +0000

I’ll use this for the time being but I am still searching for a more accurate solution that doesn’t count LAN traffic. Please let us know if you find something suitable with more options and WAN only.

By: Michael Rygaard

Michael Rygaard — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:54:29 +0000

Well in theory yes.. but if you like me use airplay (or itunes remote speaker) then your usage will look alot higher than it is sine that is counted as usage by surplus meter also.

it can not discriminate between were the data go over your wifi, to internet, or to somewere on your own network… so for all that use airplay apple tv, remote speakers, NAS, or sharing on local network.. it has no pratical use, what so ever.