Hello all,
I have been using the windows vista sidebar a lot lately and found a gadget for every purpose from love calculators to email alerters. Yesterday I came across the eftel usage meter and then felt that there must be a gadget for my ISP too. So I created this small gadget.
Vista Sidebar Gadget
The dataone usage finder vista sidebar gadget is a must if you use the BSNL’s Dataone broadband connection. It will automatically login to your dataone account and retreive the off-peak and total bandwidth usage and calculates the bandwidth remaining in the current month. It will also refresh itself after a certain specified time interval.
There are other tools which do the exact same thing by staying in the system tray like Dataone Quick Usage Finder, Dataone Usage Finder, Dataone tool. These tools are excellent and have better features than the Dataone gadget.
But the advantage of this gadget is that its tiny, consumes lesser resources, simple and requires no installation. It also fetches the data in less than 5 seconds much lesser than the other programs.
Instructions for use :
To install it, just double click the gadget file you download. It gets added to the sidebar automatically. No separate installation needed.
Usage :
Before using it, enter your username ,password and monthly usage limit in the settings page by clicking on the small spanner icon which appears when you roll over the cursor on the gadget. The gadget automatically shows the stats on clicking the OK button in settings page.
The First line displays the broadband package you have subscribed ( Home 250/500 etc). The second line gives you the total traffic ( download + upload ). If you have night unlimited package, the traffic includes the night usage also. The third line shows the billable usage which excludes the night (2am to 8am) usage. The progressbar shows the percentage of traffic used during the month. The usage limit i.e. the maximum traffic permitted for your package ( e.g Home 500 – 2.5 GB ) has to be set in the settings page. The fourth line shows the bandwidth remaining per day. i.e. the remaining bandwidth divided by the remaining number of days. The progress bar when at 100% will correspond to the average bandwidth remaining per day at the beginning of the month. If you can maintain the progress bar at 100 % , you can be sure that you will never run out of the bandwidth limit at the end of the month.The refresh button(green circular button) at the bottom left corner can be used to manually refresh the stats. Remember, the stats on the BSNL server get updated only if you disconnect the network(if you use the OS dialer) or if you restart the modem (if you are using the modem’s inbuilt pppoe dialer – holds true if your connection is always ON ).
The gadget will only work in Windows Vista and on a BSNL’s DataOne Broadband connection.
P.S. This gadget wont work for new dataone connections i.e. If you check the usage using bbservice.bsnl.in, the gadget wont work.
I do not have access to bbservice.bsnl.in. If someone who does have access could mail me their username and password, I would be happy to make the gadget work for newer connections too.
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Sounds like a great widget, will test as soon as laptop returns.. Right now using Shaplus bandwidth meter which is pretty good too!
kiran bhai….this wont work on windows xp or what??
I’m not sure whether it’ll work on xp. Check out this page. You may be able to install the patched sidebar on xp and then run this gadget through it.
Knowing your comp Mishra, I advise you NOT to have any widgets at all: Performance will suffer badly.. Just get the Shaplus bandwidth meter or Shaplus broadband usage tool (Google, too lazy to provide links)
Also there’s a addon for firefox called datafox. Try it out if you are a firefox user.
@varun, the performance will depend on the type of gadgets running. Some gadgets like the CPU meter will affect performance. The dataone gadget wont be much of a problem though.
Just adding the widget column increases CPU performance by 34% each reboot
Hi,
I have downloaded this gadget in my Vista, but I found that it was not able to connect to the server.
Any problems??
Rajiv
Rajiv,
I think you are using the newer BSNL account. I have the old BSNL account and I could not make the gadget work for the new accounts.
kiran
i downloaded this gadget
but i donno wat user name and password should i give
and wat is dat server option
wer to find all those
please hlp
Hi Prashanth
Your username/password is the one which is provided by BSNL with the connection. You can find it out by logging into your router admin page (http://192.168.1.1) with admin/admin credentials. If your configuration uses dialling software, then it would be inside the dialer. If you dont know the password , you will have to call customer care. The server address is the IP address which you use to check bb usage logs. You could try one the IP listed by default.
Sorry for my bad english. Thank you so much for your good post. Your post helped me in my college assignment, If you can provide me more details please email me.
Hi! Is there any update for windows 7? I’m looking forward to it
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Hi! Is there any update for windows 7? I’m looking forward to it
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Hi Buddy
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Best wishes
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