Is There An Accurate Way Of Measuring My Internet Useage In Gigabytes ?

I am thinking of changing my Unlimited Broadband connection to a much cheaper 3GB Download Capped package with my same provider.
I am fairly certain I come nowhere near that limit but is there some log etc. on my eMac which could reveal my exact previous internet useage in gigabytes?
Or do I just have to guess?
Ian.

Must be the USB modem aspect; MenuMeters is shows 20+GB on this Mac, and I'm pretty sure I haven't downloaded that much annoying email at work this week! Likewise, Network Utility is showing 29,000,000+ packets sents and received. I'm pretty sure I restarted this Mac back at the start of this month. Those usage stats may well be cumulative since the last restart; the Windows servers at work generate an amazing amount of network garbage (the IT department requires you leave the firewall open to allow network backups and pushing software installs, virtually all of it Windows, but they still ping the machine multiple times per second --- a great way to justify hiring more IT people to handle the network traffic load!).

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