Traffic control - the need to work with limited internet

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

You need to control the consumption of Internet traffic in order to know how many megabytes are left on the user's current balance. It's no secret that all providers that offer limited rates provide a certain amount of traffic for a certain amount. At the same time, if the traffic consumption is exceeded, those megabytes that were spent “above” the specified amount are charged according to a completely different scheme. More often than not, additional megabytes are offered at a much higher price than the "basic" package. Thus, spending them, the Internet user spends more money than he originally expected.

How to control traffic consumption on your account?

Each user of the Internet provider creates a special account in its accounting system. This account keeps statistics on 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 simply log into his account and see everything with his own eyes. But controlling traffic in this way has one problem. Similar tracking systems, due to the complexitymonitoring technologies update information on costs not immediately, but at certain intervals. It is impossible to get up-to-date information on the traffic balance instantly with their help. This, in turn, can create additional difficulties, because a person sees his balance as "a certain period of time ago." This means that even if he exhausts the traffic limit, he will see it after the appearance of a negative balance.

Tracking the current traffic consumption

In order to track the traffic consumption on your computer in real time, as well as get the current balance on your account, the traffic control program will help. It is used both on laptops and stationary PCs, and on mobile devices.

The scheme of the program is extremely simple - it controls the traffic "from the inside", that is, based on the data of system programs and applications that consume Internet traffic. Such monitoring allows you to receive the most up-to-date information, including detailed information.

Benefits of data usage programs

The programs in question have certain advantages. Firstly, they are able to detail consumption statistics, specifying which programs consumed the most megabytes and over what period of time.

Secondly, they can be used to quickly and conveniently control traffic consumption, enabling and disabling the Internet connection, as well asdistributing it between applications.

Thirdly, some designated software solutions can even control both the traffic itself, filtering out certain resources (for example, adult sites), and control the traffic speed, distributing it to different processes (this procedure is similar to speed distribution 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 control programs

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

If we are talking about traffic control on a mobile device, then you should look for such programs on the corresponding catalogs (stores) of applications. What kind of directory this is depends on the operating system that your tablet or smartphone is running. For owners of Apple technology, this is the Appstore, and for users of the Android system, the Google Play catalog. Installing an application that controls traffic on such devices is even easier than on personal computers, since it can be done with just one click. Choosing a program should not onlyfocusing on such a description, but also paying attention to the reviews left by users. To find them, you just need to drive the name of a particular software product into the search box.

Before using the program

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