Very Useful Monitoring App

This is a great app that provides the data advertised above. I use it to keep tabs on my bandwidth usage so I don’t run over each month. It offers configurable alerts at usage amounts you define via email and notification center alerts. I have it let me know in 50 gig increments just to make sure I am not unpleasantly surprised as the end of the month approaches. This info is however readily available at any time conveniently enough right from the menu bar.

I’m very happy with this app and would highly recommend it to anyone needing or wanting the monitoring it provides. Just be sure you run free PeakHour Compatibility Tool app available here on the App Store which is conveniently linked on the right side of the store page here to ensure your hardware offers the necessary support for an app of this kind to work. I own a 5th Generation Airport Extreme and a 2nd Generation Airport Express which both work with this. However, Apple routers newer than these dropped SNMP support which means this app is unable to monitor them unfortunately. If you really need or want this kind of monitoring, you’ll need a different router that supports it.

One last thing, support by this developer is excellent. A recent update just prior to this one introduced an issue where PeakHour 3 would crash when my iMac went to sleep or was coming out of it. So I’d have to restart it each time. I contacted them about this and they were already aware and at work on a fix. He asked me to send along some crash reports and gave clear instructions on how to do so. I did this and he got back to me kindly offering me access to a beta version with the fix for the problem in it to hold me over until the fixed version available here now had gone through the App Store approval process which takes some days usually. So he went out of his way to take care of me after the sale on a very reasonably priced app that normally works like a charm and is again now that this fixed version (3.0.7) is up on the store.

5 Stars from this very satisfied customer. Thank you Mr. Lawford.

Linmukai about PeakHour 3