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How Bandwidth Caps Hurt Your Mac & What Apple Can Do About It

Written on June 29, 2009 by Dave Greenbaum and 38 people have commented

As a responsible Mac user, I usually feel immune from most Internet threats…except for one. Using my Mac exactly as Apple intends it to be used sometimes renders my Internet connection virtually unusable for up to a month, and costs money to fix.
Could this happen to you? It depends on whether your Internet provider has [...]

Tales From The Command Line: Where Has My Bandwidth Gone? (iftop & SurplusMeter)

Written on July 03, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 11 people have commented

I believe I can safely say that the primary objective for users running OS X is to connect to the Internet to read mail, check out web sites, chat with friends, download new apps or grab/share multi-media content, etc. With bandwidth caps staring to become all the rage by the mega-providers, knowing how much you [...]