DataFox Bandwidth Monitoring Addon for Firefox

Majority of BSNL and MTNL Broadband users who opt for limited data transfer plans usually end up exceeding their bandwidth caps and paying heavy bills. Brain Fernandes has developed an awesome Firefox addon which helps you control your bandwidth bills by monitoring your bandwidth usage within Firefox.

Screenshots:

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DataFox Firefox Addon (Install Now)

I would rate this addon as a must-have for any BSNL or MTNL broadband user running on limited bandwidth plans. Just incase, you don’t use Firefox, you can try out other bandwidth monitoring tools like:

Reliance Internet users in India can try Net Usage Item Addon, which was primarily designed for Australian ISPs. It works by reading the XML feed from the usage page, so you can’t use it with BSNL or MTNL connection.

In other broadband news, Indian Government seems to be in talks for providing free broadband throughout the country by 2009.

Source: Sindhu S

 

This post was published by on May 14, 2007

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  • http://www.webmaster-dome.com/ Sreejith

    I would’ve used this if it were 6 months before. Now, I’ve unlimited bandwidth connection !! BSNL roxor !!

  • http://www.techlivez.com Latest Technology Updates

    its feel good to have a unlimited connection :D

  • http://techmantra.net Vikram

    Finally a Plugin released to check dataone bandwith from Firefox … So from today i’ll say bye to Internet Explorer.

    FireFox Rocks!!!

  • http://samirbharadwaj.com Samir

    I believe most limited bandwidth services in India have a un-accounted time slot in the night (usually midnight to 6am or something similar). So my first question after reading this was whether this addon took that into account.

    After a quick look at the site it seems it does take that into account. One of the screenshots shows a bandwidth “total excluding night”. Great work by the author, Brian Fernandes. Not only a good idea, but a well thought out one as well.

  • http://blog.shankarganesh.com Shankar Ganesh

    I too had limited plans earlier, switched now. This is really a must have for BSNL limited plan users. Thanks for the info!

  • http://www.enblogopedia.com Enblogopedia

    Oh man, I was looking for a program to do the job for me!
    Great man ;)

  • http://technixupdate.com abhishek bhatnagar

    well i thnk would prove very fruit full for my limited connection…

  • Mosey

    I use the older version of NetMeter which is now being developed again! Ihaven’t tested the new version but it takes up virtually no memory and runs in the background painlessly. You have the option of setting max bandwidth allowed and it will warn you if it’s getting close or that the trend in traffic could take you close to your limit. :) http://www.metal-machine.de/readerror/

  • http://www.rishiraj.info Rishi

    Its good but I am getting a problem. I have set the plugin preference but its not showing any data. :grin:

    Any tip?