No matter how well you monitor your own data, your ISP will always use their own numbers to decide how much data you’ve uploaded and downloaded. Your ISP’s tool is the best way to stay up-to-date on how much data you’re using. Cox calls this a “Data Usage Meter,” while AT&T calls it “myAT&T Usage.” Other ISPs call it similar things, generally involving the word “Usage.” After all, they’re already tracking your data usage on their end. If your Internet service provider is tracking your bandwidth usage and holding you to a cap, they probably provide a page on their account website where they display how much data you’ve used in the last month. RELATED: How to Deal With Internet Bandwidth Caps

It’s definitely a great application, and we recommend it. The basic version of GlassWire is free for everybody, but if you want the extra features, you’ll have to pay for the full version.

And, of course, you can drill down into more details, or zoom in to just the last day. Want to know what hosts your applications are connecting to, and what type of traffic it is? You can easily see that as well.