Can anyone recommend a good basic product to monitor my dial-up mb usage that will help me identify the culpit that is chewing up my alowance?
What do you mean by chewing up your allowance? Dial up connections are very slow, so it is probably the connection itself that is limiting you internet speed, if this is what you are asking about. Even through a 56kb modem, you will be lucky to get 6 or 7 kpbs download speed.