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Comment by dugmartin | Hacker News Reader

I just checked my Tomato router and so far this month (posting this on 4/15/10) I've used 8.99 GB. I hope Comcast's secret rate limit is < 20GB/month.

  Date     Download  Upload   Total
  2010-04  8.21 GB   0.78 GB  8.99 GB

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The upper bound is 250GB/mo. Check your comcast.net account center, and they'll give you the details.

Thanks. I just checked and found the page showing my usage on comcast.net. It looks like getting the Netflix Wii disk has significantly bumped up my usage but its still way under the cap.

An offtopic questinn, where do you save your bandwidth data in your Tomato router? NVRAM? It is suggested "Frequent saving to NVRAM or JFFS2 is not recommended".

People are a little too worried about read/write cycles for flash. They hear "limited" and think it means "you can't update a bandwidth counter every so often", when in reality it means, "you will need new flash after 10 years of writing to it at its full bandwidth".

</rant>.

Mine was set to ram but I just pointed it at nvram. Anytime I try to do anything with jffs2 I get a generic error message. I tried using jffs2 to setup a hosts file but ended up just using the configuration textarea in the tomato admin to set the local addresses.

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