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Bwm-ng: Measure Bandwidth Consumption in Real Time

Introduction

Sometimes, you need to measure the current total bandwidth. bwm-ng is your friend :-)

Installation

On Debian, it's easy:

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apt-get install bwm-ng

Usage

Simply run the command to get it working directly:

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$ bwm-ng
  bwm-ng v0.6 (probing every 0.500s), press 'h' for help
  input: /proc/net/dev type: rate
  |         iface                   Rx                   Tx                Total
  ==============================================================================
               lo:           0.00 KB/s            0.00 KB/s            0.00 KB/s
             eth0:        2275.89 KB/s           57.56 KB/s         2333.45 KB/s
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            total:        2275.89 KB/s           57.56 KB/s         2333.45 KB/s