How to calculate traffic consumed per day?

Question

Computer networks

There is a small office for 6 computers in which the Internet periodically drops due to the fault of the provider. I decided to take care of the backup channel for such cases. Due to the specifics of the office location, it will be expensive to run the second cable, so I'm looking in the direction of the 4g modem. But I don’t really want to overpay for downtime days, so I want to take a tariff with payment for the days used. We have such tariffs, but I'm afraid that the provided traffic will not be enough. How can you track how much traffic we drive on average in one working day? Mikrotik router.

Answer 1

Go to the Mikrotik menu. Interfaces (select the interface that looks towards the provider) > Traffic. It shows how much total traffic came to you and left you for all the time, click the Reset counters button and the statistics will be deleted and after one day go there and see how much has come over the elapsed time. You need to look at TX/RX Bytes

Answer 2

I recommend not to look at the number of traffic in one day, but at least for a week, take the averaged data and add 20% of the backup to them