Re: Looking for an app that limits communication when tethering

MenuMeters is very good about clearly telling you exactly who is hogging bandwidth when it is being hogged, but it doesn't keep a history.

> On Oct 31, 2019, at 3:45 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary-QgsHSxYFCUK3byy5ozDitmD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org> wrote:
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>> On Oct 31, 2019, at 14:42, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> About all you can do is turn off automatic updating, cloud backups, dropbox, and any other bandwidth hog you can think of.
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> Hard to tell. I'm checking Activity Monitor, the "Network" tab, and the "Sent bytes" column does not give any time range.
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> Also, mDNSResponder is apparently the biggest packet sender, just above Mail, but for some reason App Store is not there, etc.
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>> I can't even imagine how one would write an app that does what you want to do.
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> I was thinking some sort of packet sniffing mixed with some sort of "parental control" or whatnot. But I really have no idea either.
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> Jean-Christophe
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>> I sympathize with your plight. I spent all of September and some of October on the road in an RV. Since campgrounds typically have suck or broken wifi, if they have it at all, I did a lot of tethering. For the first time ever, I ran into an unexpected limit on my "unlimited" plan (turns out they explicitly limit tethering only), and they offered no way for me to buy extra gigs to last out the month. The solution finally struck me: tether to my wife's phone, because the plan limit was per phone, not per account.
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>>> On Oct 30, 2019, at 10:30 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary-QgsHSxYFCUK3byy5ozDitmD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org> wrote:
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>>> I'm looking for an app that limits communication on the Mac side when I'm tethering with my phone.
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>>> Or at least that lets me control which app goes through.
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>>> I just got a phone (almost 10 years without) and got a really bad surprise yesterday when I realized that the App Store did all the updating in the background. In 2 days, 4gb of stuff...
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>>> Any suggestion ?
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>>> Jean-Christophe Helary
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>>> http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune
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