It is necessary to control the consumption of Internet traffic in order to know how many megabytes remain on the user's current balance. It is no secret that all providers offering limited tariffs provide a certain amount of traffic for a certain amount. Moreover, in case of excess traffic consumption, those megabytes that were spent "on top" of the specified volume are charged in a completely different way. Most often, additional megabytes are offered much more expensive than the "main" package. Thus, spending them, the Internet user spends more money than originally calculated.
How to control the traffic flow on your account?
Each Internet provider has a special account in their account system. This account keeps statistics on how many megabytes have been spent and how much is left in stock. A person who wants to know how much traffic he can still afford to spend can just log into his account and see everything with his own eyes. But traffic control in this way has one problem. Such tracking systems, due to the complexity of monitoring technology, do not update information on expenses immediately, but at certain intervals. It is instantly impossible to obtain up-to-date information on the traffic balance with their help. This, in turn, can create additional difficulties, because a person sees his balance as “for a certain period of time ago”. This means that even if he runs out of traffic, he will see it after the appearance of a negative balance.
Tracking actual traffic consumption
In order to monitor the traffic consumption on your computer in real time, as well as receive the current balance for your account, a program to control traffic will help. It is used both on laptops and stationary PCs, and on mobile devices.
The program’s working scheme is extremely simple - it monitors traffic “from within”, that is, based on data from system programs and applications that consume Internet traffic. Such monitoring allows you to get the most relevant information, including detailed information.
Benefits of Internet Traffic Consumption Programs
The programs in question have certain advantages. Firstly, they are able to detail consumption statistics, specifying which programs have consumed the most megabytes and over what period of time.
Secondly, with their help, you can quickly and conveniently control the consumption of traffic, including and disabling the Internet connection, as well as distributing it between applications.
Thirdly, some of the indicated software solutions can even control the traffic itself, filtering out certain resources (for example, adult sites), and control the speed of traffic by distributing it to different processes (this procedure is similar to the distribution of speed between torrent downloads). Thus, by installing such programs, you can monitor and control how your computer consumes network traffic. The only question is how to choose such a program, and where to look for them.
Search and selection of programs for control
Fortunately, today there are many programs that record and control traffic on the network. To find them, just go to the appropriate section of any portal or software catalog. On such resources, as a rule, there are not only the names and files themselves for downloading, but also detailed descriptions of how traffic is controlled by a particular product.
If we are talking about traffic control on a mobile device, then you should look for such programs on the appropriate application directories (stores). What kind of directory it is depends on the operating system that runs your tablet or smartphone. For Apple owners, this is the Appstore, and for Android users, the Google Play directory. Installing an application that controls traffic on such devices is even easier than on personal computers, since you can do this with just one click. Choosing a program should not only be guided by such a description, but also paying attention to the reviews that users leave. To find them, you just need to drive the name of a software product into the search bar.
Before using the program
Before you configure the program and forget about it, start spending your traffic, we recommend that you test it. Make sure that it functions correctly, performs tasks. Also, understand its interface in order to avoid mistakes when working with it in the future. After that, you can set your own settings, which would, say, limit traffic consumption at a certain level, or notify the user about the exhaustion of a certain limit. Of course, such capabilities depend solely on which program to control traffic has been installed.