Thread: help on resetting data plan counter
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2010-01-02 , 19:55
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#23
Originally Posted by chicoelnino View Post
Wonder is it possible to get a app that tells you your data usage over wifi. Would be handy for someone like me who's thinking of changing over to bill pay with a data plan. would like to see my monthly usage on wifi.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=37771

gives the number of bytes transferred over wifi in each direction since last boot. An enhancement would be:
Code:
date >> wifi.dat
/sbin/ifconfig wlan0 | grep bytes >> wifi.dat
(In a terminal window, of course.) Running this from time to time will keep a record of your wifi usage.
>> means append, > means overwrite.

The above commands could be put in a file. This would constitute an app of sorts.