You asked me a question about the traffic on the wireless network card

This article is a question and answer about traffic problems caused by using a wireless network card to access the Internet. I hope that the majority of wireless Internet users will have a clear understanding of the traffic fees through answers from netizens. Hope to help you.

For a long time, the wide area wireless network adapter is used for surfing. However, because the telecom service is calculated based on traffic, the network is usually used with caution and is basically connected only during use.

However, I recently found that some GPRS internet access fees are much higher than those calculated by myself. I don't know how the so-called GPRS traffic is calculated?

Is it calculated only for receiving data or for receiving and sending data?

If the sum of receiving and sending is used, is there a two-way charge, and there is a duplicate charge? In addition, I also hope to recommend one or two traffic computing tools to help me grasp the monthly GPRS traffic overhead and expense accurately.

Answer: At present, many China's telecom operators have provided wide area network wireless access services. Users can access networks through standard networks such as GPRS, CDMA, and EDGE, thus achieving wireless Internet access anytime, anywhere. However, at present, most of the WAN wireless services do not provide monthly subscription services, that is, users can access the Internet without traffic restrictions or time restrictions. However, the measurement of wireless Internet access fees is generally calculated based on traffic. In this way, the question raised by the netizen at the beginning of this article is directly linked to the economy.

How is the so-called traffic-based computing measured?

As we all know, we use wireless network interfaces to communicate with external network sites or users first. On the one hand, we want to send data to the other party, and at the same time we need to receive data from the other party. A more accurate statement of traffic calculation includes receiving data and sending data. The sum of the two is the total traffic, and the payment is based on the total traffic.

Generally, we can see the group data corresponding to the wireless network adapter when accessing the mobile phone through GPRS or when the wireless network adapter is connected to the laptop, including the number of sent bytes and the number of received bytes, the sum of the two is the basis for partial telecom billing.

However, I would like to remind you that many readers use the mobile phone to connect to the GPRS network and use the traffic display provided by the mobile phone as the basis. In fact, this is not accurate, generally, the data on most mobile phones, especially Nokie, is less accurate than the actual data. The best way is to call 10086 or the Technical Support Hotline of other service providers.

Of course, there is also a clever way to monitor the data transmission traffic of the wireless network adapter through third-party software installed on the notebook, or installed to monitor the smart phone system connected to the GPRS. Interested readers can study it in private. For example, it is very convenient to use small tools such as GPRS traffic monitor, and the recorded information is very accurate, which can be used as a powerful reference.