Category Archives: Internet

iftop for Linux bandwidth monitoring

Since I often work remotely (coffices and stuff), I use 3G/4G modems with me to provide some connectivity while I'm out. Adding the VPN services in-between I need to know how much traffic is passing through my network, inbound and outbound.

So iftop was the easiest and lightest thing I found. It's in Fedora's repos (I believe Ubuntu's too) so a simple `yum install iftop` resolved the deps for me with everything.

To run that, a:

iftop -i wlan0

(or whatever your interface is) would start that monitor. The listening would probably require you to sudo before that.

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Google Plus is on

Google started their new service called Google+ which is the newest addition to their web toolkit collection. After the fail of Buzz and Wave (I'm sincerely missing the last one) this one stands a chance to survive and definitely shake the Facebook market.

Few hours of clicking around I was happy with the light version of network - the standard minimalistic design (total lack of any design according to some users) and lightweight platform unlike Wave. The invitation procedure that we know since GMail works as well - plenty of mediocre users wanted them to be _in_ only for the being special case. However.

A great review on the subject is the comparison of Plus with Wave and Buzz. I'm hitting the +1 on that one.

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