How can I see the amount of data I am Downloading / Uploading per day?
You can use vnstat
. It is a command line tool that can keep track of downloaded or uploaded data volume. To install vnstat
type in terminal,
sudo apt-get install vnstat
Sample output:
$ vnstat Database updated: Sat Oct 15 11:54:00 2011 eth0 since 10/01/11 rx: 12.89 MiB tx: 6.94 MiB total: 19.82 MiB monthly rx | tx | total | avg. rate ------------------------+-------------+-------------+--------------- Sep '11 12.90 MiB | 6.90 MiB | 19.81 MiB | 0.14 kbit/s Oct '11 12.89 MiB | 6.94 MiB | 19.82 MiB | 0.15 kbit/s ------------------------+-------------+-------------+--------------- estimated 29 MiB | 14 MiB | 43 MiB | daily rx | tx | total | avg. rate ------------------------+-------------+-------------+--------------- yesterday 4.30 MiB | 2.42 MiB | 6.72 MiB | 0.64 kbit/s today 2.03 MiB | 1.07 MiB | 3.10 MiB | 0.59 kbit/s ------------------------+-------------+-------------+--------------- estimated 4 MiB | 2 MiB | 6 MiB |
There are many options available to obtain customized results. See thegeekstuff for more.