I use NetworkManager to handle network connections on my laptop.

Once a day some backup scripts are started automatically. They need a lot of bandwidth and I don’t want them run while I use a low bandwidth mobile connection or when I am not at home.

Gasflow shows the current bandwidth usage in the status bar, not as an overlay like DataStats, which I like more. So it is like the non free app Internet Speed Meter Lite.

Some great features have been implemented into the Mumble-Ruby-Pluginbot: