Traffic control - the need to work with limited Internet

Control the consumption of Internet traffic in order to know how many megabytes are left on the current balance of the user. It's no secret that all providers offering limited tariffs provide a certain amount of traffic for a certain amount. In this case, in case of exceeding the traffic consumption, those megabytes that were spent "above" the specified amount are charged according to a different scheme. More often, additional megabytes are offered much more expensive than the "basic" package. Thus, by spending them, the Internet user spends more money than originally expected.

How can I control how much traffic I spend on my account?

Every Internet service provider is assigned a special account in their account system. On this account, statistics are kept of how many megabytes have been spent and how much is left in stock. A person who wants to know how much traffic he can still afford to spend, can just go into your account and see everything with your own eyes. But traffic control in this way has one problem. Such tracking systems, due to the complexity of monitoring technology, update information about expenses not immediately, but at certain intervals of time. Get them with the latest information on the balance of traffic instantly impossible. This, in turn, can create additional difficulties, because a person sees his balance as "for a certain period of time back." This means that even if he exhausts the traffic limit, he will see it after the negative balance appears.

Tracking the actual traffic consumption

In order to monitor the consumption of traffic on your computer in real time, and also get the current balance on your account, the program for monitoring traffic will help. It is used both on laptops and stationary PCs, and on mobile devices.

The scheme of the program is extremely simple - it monitors traffic "from within", that is, based on data from system programs and applications that use Internet traffic. Such monitoring allows obtaining the most up-to-date information, including detailed information.

Advantages of Internet traffic consumption programs

The programs in question have certain advantages. First, they are able to detail the flow statistics, specifying which programs have consumed the most megabytes and at what time interval.

Secondly, with their help you can quickly and conveniently monitor the consumption of traffic, including and disconnecting the Internet connection, as well as distributing it between applications.

Third, some designated software solutions can even control both the traffic itself, filtering out certain resources (for example, sites for adults), and controlling traffic speed, distributing it to different processes (this procedure is similar to the distribution of speed between torrent downloads). Thus, by installing such programs, you can monitor and control how your computer consumes network traffic. The only question is how to choose such a program, and where to look for them.

Search and selection of programs for control

Fortunately, to date, there are many programs that keep track of and control traffic on the network. To find them, just go to the appropriate section of any portal or software directory. On such resources, as a rule, there are not only the names and files for uploading, but also detailed descriptions of how the traffic is controlled by this or that product.

If it is a question of monitoring traffic on a mobile device, then to look for such programs should be on the corresponding application directories (shops). What kind of directory it is depends on the operating system under which your tablet or smartphone is located. For owners of Apple technology, this is Appstore, and for Android users - the Google Play catalog. Install an application that monitors traffic to such devices even easier than on personal computers, since you can do this with just one click. Choose the same program should not only be guided by this description, but also paying attention to reviews that leave users. To find them, you just need to drive the name of a particular software product into the search string.

Before using the program

Before you configure the program and forget about it, start spending your traffic, we recommend testing it. Make sure that it functions correctly, performs the tasks. Also, look at its interface to avoid mistakes when working with it in the future. After that, you can set your own settings, which would, say, limit the traffic consumption at a certain level, or inform the user about the exhaustion of a certain limit. Of course, such features depend solely on which program for monitoring traffic was installed.