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Traffic Monitor

Description:

• [1] Estimation of the traffic used to the end of period.
• [2] Percentage of used traffic.
• [3] Traffic speed from the last update.
• [4] Period used for calculation of the total used traffic.
• [5] Interface
• [6] Connection state (Online/Offline)

The traffic is attributed to the day of the session start.
ex.: If the session start is 23:30 of 15-Jan and the end is 2:00 of 16-Jan,
then the total traffic make before and after the midnight is assigned to the day 15-Jan.
In the future is add another assignment method.

Traffic Preferences

Description:

• [1] If is checked then module is active and visible in the monitor window.
• [2] Is the limit value for the traffic.
• [3] If is checked then NTM auto-disconnect the connection when the above limit is reached.
• [4] If this check-box is selected then the first day is auto-updated when the period is ended. (ex.:If the first day is 15-Jan and the period length is 5 days, then when is reached the 20-Jan the first day is update with the value 20-Jan).
• [5] The period length:
  • Custom: An additional field will be visible where you can indicate the exactly number of days.
  • Day: 1 day
  • Week: 7 days
  • Month: 1 calendar month. ex: FirstDay=Feb-25 then LastDay=Mar-24
  • Year: 1 calendar year. ex: FirstDay=Feb-25-2010 then LastDay=Feb-24-2011
• [6] The first day of the period.

General Preferences

Description:

• [1] The name of interface must be monitored.
• [2] The number of seconds from two successive updates.
• [3] If selected then the monitor window is keeped on the top.
• [4] Opacity of the monitor window. This work if compiz is active.
• [5] If checked then NTM is run automatically in the session startup.
• [6] Online check mode:
  • NetworkManager: The online status is take from NetworkManager.
  • Ping Mode: The online status is monitoring by the ping command over the site "google.com".
    This option is useful when the connection is not controlled from NetworkManager.