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Bandwidth. Bandwidth usage would be nice. This is something that little-snitch doesn't already do and you can't see it in activity monitor as far as I know. A

• aparadja 15y ago
  Bandwitdh measurement isn't trivial, but it's something I'd very much love to add. Thanks for the input.
  • heliostatic 15y ago
    Beyond bandwidth monitoring on a single machine, a simple snmp monitor would be amazing...
  • kalleboo 15y ago
    nettop in the command line does it (added in Lion), maybe you can scrape it out of there or find the source to it to see how it's done.
    • brndnhy 15y ago
      Fantastic. Thank you for that.
• dgallagher 15y ago
  Apple does provide this in Activity Monitor. Click the "Network" tab and you'll see "Data received:" and "Data sent:". It tally's since the last reboot. It would be nice to have a history feature though. Plus, there's no easy way to ask "How much bandwidth do I have left this payment period before Comcast starts billing me for going over my monthly limit?" You'd have to tally total bandwidth, and then associate it with an internet connection. You could track internet connections via DNS/public-IP info, and possibly MAC address for WAPs. If you're a laptop user jumping from WAP-to-WAP, it would be nice to know when you're online at home, or in a Starbucks, and differentiate total bandwidth used for each.
  • hmottestad 15y ago
    To clarify. Activity monitor does not show a bandwidth usage on a process to process basis. Since the app in the link is a list of processes and where they are connecting it would be nice to see how much bandwidth each of these connections is using.