Hello. Use the Internet-Box 2, firmware 13.00.38/13.00.36, together with the blue Internet L subscription. Is there a way to find out the amount of data “used” in a month in the Internet box menu or in Kundencenter? The amount of data used is shown on the mobile phone bill, but unfortunately not on the bill for the blue subscription.
Thank you.
mananac I have never seen such an option either on the Internet box or in the Kundencenter. There is a program that can do that, but I haven’t used it myself and therefore can’t report any experiences with it. It also costs:
https://www.softperfect.com/products/networx/
There may be others too.
In Windows you can go to settings and then under Network & INternet under Status you can display the data volume used on the corresponding computer for the last 30 days. You’ll have to see if that helps you 😀.
Agus fágaimíd siúd mar atá sé
@mananac there is no solution for this “out of the box”.
If you want to capture full throughput, you’ll need to go through third-party providers.
My UDMpro, in the DMZ of the IB3, records the entire throughput on the WAN port. In an 8-person household with 3 TVs, that’s around 1.7 TB of data per month.
It’s nice to know what kind of data goes through there, but it’s not really relevant for me, there’s no data limit that would be financially relevant 😀
Swisscom TV needs approx. 3.5 GB per hour of transmission.
UHD video streaming like Netflix, etc. sometimes requires twice as much.
For example, if you need an average of 100 hours of TV and 50 hours of streaming services per month, that’s around 700 GB per month.
Surfing, WhatsApp and email, etc. are pretty peanuts in comparison and no longer play a role overall.
What you might have to add as an exception in special cases would be additional cloud download uploads of large quantities of videos and games, which would then have to be added.
Basically, it is always the video streams, or the down or upload of video files, that drive up the traffic and overall, with a flat rate, the amount actually consumed is actually completely irrelevant in practice anyway.
Roughly speaking, I would guess that most Swisscom landline Internet connections generate between 500 GB and 1.5 TB of traffic per month, mainly influenced by individual TV and streaming consumption.
Hobby-Nerd ohne wirtschaftliche Abhängigkeiten zur Swisscom
One possibility I see:
You connect a manageable switch directly to the IB and connect all other network devices to it either directly or via additional cascaded switches.
To ensure that the WLAN traffic is also included in the statistics, you also connect the AP to the switch via LAN, first switch off the WLAN synchronization on the IB and then the WLAN on the IB itself.
Now you can either read the statistics from the uplink port of the switch (connection to the IB) directly (depending on the switch type) or, for example, transfer them to an SNMP server or SYSLOG server (both relatively easy to implement with a RASPI) and evaluate them there.
With such software tools you can only remotely read interfaces that allow this. I had no success with a similar tool at IB.
@hed According to the last post here the software mentioned should be compatible with SC routers (I assume up to at least IB2), but as already written, I don’t know the program and I honestly need it Not said either, but from what I saw, you can test it for free for 30 days if you want.
Agus fágaimíd siúd mar atá sé
Thank you for the quick and comprehensive answers.
The reason for the question: Due to an upcoming stay abroad of several months, I want to find out my average current data consumption, since my current cell phone subscription (Salt, not SC) includes the option “unlimited data usage in other European countries” and I’m thinking about to use the cell phone as a hotspot for the laptop instead of buying an additional data SIM on site, as the subscription continues.
When I asked, the provider gave me the relatively vague information that this option remains active even during a complete stay abroad, as long as data usage remains “within a normal and reasonable limit”. Compared to the amounts of data mentioned here, my current consumption (YouTube, Netflix, blue TV, surfing, email) seems to be quite reasonable at 214 GB and I probably don’t need an additional data SIM.
Are you sure Unlimited is actually Unlimited? It is already unlimited in terms of data volume, but not in terms of speed, see Salt’s website:
Data in the EUROPE zone up to a maximum of 20 GB per month, then speed reduction to 256 Kbits/s.
And if SALT has given you different information, you should have it confirmed in writing that the amount of data is unlimited and that there is never no fallback when it comes to speed.
mananac wrote:
Thank you. According to “Salt-Cockpit”, the amount of data should be unlimited:
Greetings
Peter
Unlimited yes - no problem. It’s written there in good marketing terms 😉
The only question is how much of it at full speed and from how many GB at snail speed. You’ll find that somewhere in the very, very small print… but yes - it remains unlimited
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