How can I track my MacBook laptop's internet data usage

How can I track my MacBook laptop's internet data usage

Posted on Sep 6, 2022 3:12 PM

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Posted on Sep 6, 2022 3:14 PM

View network activity in the Activity Monitor window

  • In the Activity Monitor app  on your Mac, click Network (or use the Touch Bar) to see the following at the bottom of the window:
    • Packets in, Packets out: The total number of packets received and sent.
    • Packets in/sec, Packets out/sec: The speed of information being transferred (in packets per second). This number can be displayed in the graph.
    • Data received, Data sent: The total amount of information moved (in megabytes).
    • Data received/sec, Data sent/sec: The amount of information moved over time (in bytes per second), also called throughput. This number can be displayed in the graph.
  • To display more columns, choose View > Columns, then choose the columns you want to show


See this Link for further reference

View network activity in Activity Monitor on Mac – Apple Support (UK)


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Sep 6, 2022 3:14 PM in response to Yojo59

View network activity in the Activity Monitor window

  • In the Activity Monitor app  on your Mac, click Network (or use the Touch Bar) to see the following at the bottom of the window:
    • Packets in, Packets out: The total number of packets received and sent.
    • Packets in/sec, Packets out/sec: The speed of information being transferred (in packets per second). This number can be displayed in the graph.
    • Data received, Data sent: The total amount of information moved (in megabytes).
    • Data received/sec, Data sent/sec: The amount of information moved over time (in bytes per second), also called throughput. This number can be displayed in the graph.
  • To display more columns, choose View > Columns, then choose the columns you want to show


See this Link for further reference

View network activity in Activity Monitor on Mac – Apple Support (UK)


Sep 6, 2022 7:07 PM in response to Yojo59

Directly measuring your Internet data usage is impracticable since a Mac only connects directly to the router connected to the Internet. Therefore it is the only device that can accurately record the amount of Internet data you're using. I don't know of any routers with such reporting capability, but they might exist.


The total amount of network traffic to and from your MacBook over a period of time can be recorded, which might be useful to you. ‎Bandwidth+ on the Mac App Store can do that.

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