Daily Bandwidth Report

Basics

• 2014/03 => The old bandwidth reporting script has been rewritten in the Perl programming language and should now do a better job at keeping up with nwtel's new and improved internet packages.
• The bandwidth report, as installed on a nwtel-connected firewall and configured by Computerisms, will compile a report and send it every night at midnight
• It is important to note that Accounted data should not be used as a measure against what nwtel will charge you
  • It will accurately track how much bandwidth crosses the firewall, but may count more or less than the actual data that crosses your external ethernet port
    • Accounted data can only tell you how much data the computers behind the firewall have sent or "invited" in, but it cannot tell you how much uninvited data is being sent to you from the internet.
    • Accounted data may also count data that crosses the firewall but is blocked before leaving it.
    • It is a good tool to use for identifying abusers, runaway connections, and other network problems, but does not accurately reflect what nwtel counts
  • The Raw Data will usually be a bit higher than the Accounted Data count
    • This is because your external ethernet port should be recieving data that will not cross into your private network
• When you start using this report, the initial counts will be wrong, how wrong is pretty random, depending on the existing stats on your firewall
  • Daily counts should start being accurate for the 2nd report
  • MTD (Month to Date) counts will start being accurate at the beginning of the next month