[ILUG] 3's Huawei-e220 modem software

[Pádraig Brady]

Pinco Pallino wrote:
> Hello everybody!
> 
> I've got some problem with my 3's broadband:
> My last *huge* bill was 320€

Ouch :(
That's a lot of downloading!

> as I don't want to have a bad surprise like that and I could 
> face this problem just by using the software provided for Windows users,
> which allows to monitor the updated data's traffic and check eventual
> warnings related to that sent by 3
> 
> I tried to install it and use it with wine, but apparently only the
> installation one was successful... Can anyone help me, please?

Linux has traffic accounting built in.
You will need to map from size to cost yourself, but that should be easy.
Have a google for "iptables traffic accounting".

Pádraig.