Data Limits and Alerts

Data limits & alerts

If your plan has a monthly allowance (common on mobile broadband, hotspots and some fibre plans), WinSpeed can track it and warn you.

Setting it up

Settings → Data plan & alerts:

Setting	Meaning
Monthly limit	Your allowance in GB (0 = no limit). Decimals allowed, e.g. 75.5.
Billing cycle starts on day	The day of the month your allowance resets (1–28).
Daily limit	Optional daily allowance in MB (0 = no limit). Useful for "fair use" daily caps.
Warn me at	The percentage that triggers the first warning (default 90 %).

What happens

• The Overview page shows the billing period's usage with a progress bar that turns orange at your warning level and red at 100 %.
• A Windows notification appears when you cross the warning percentage, and again at 100 %. Each alert fires once per billing period (or once per day for the daily limit).
• The meter's tooltip shows x% of <limit>.
• Data usage → Range → Current billing period shows the period day by day.

Which traffic counts?

Only the counted adapters count (see Network adapters). By default that means your physical adapters: Ethernet, Wi-Fi and mobile broadband. If you use a phone hotspot only sometimes and want to track just that, choose Only the adapters I tick and select the hotspot's Wi-Fi adapter.

Changing a limit re-arms the alerts.

Accuracy

WinSpeed measures traffic on this PC only. Your provider counts every device on the connection, and may count protocol overhead slightly differently. Expect WinSpeed's number to be a little lower than the bill, and set the warning level with some margin (80–90 %).