Help Plz WTB/WTD Bandwidth Monitoring Tool

[Solemn]

Ello Boys and erm Girls / Girl

I was hoping someone could recommend some sort of Bandwidth monitoring software. Something I could use without needing to have installed on any clients, so I can work out if someone on my network, happens to be hogging all my speedz!

Also I was hoping I'd be able to check using this theoritical software if someone were playing online games, eg. WOW. Maybe by checking port activity or something? :/

Thanks in advance for any help / Advice =D

 

[Nanor]

SEXY!

Works great for me and does what ya need. I think. Or maybe not.

 

[Pingue]

Well, apart from:
"Graph your usage from multiple household computers (coming soon)"

Unless there's something that can talk to your router etc, it'd need to be on the other computers. I've found a few similar programs, but none quite do the trick

 

[Wol]

Netmeter (freeware) will show network traffic in/out of your computer which I think is what that util Nanor sent does.

"graph your usage from multiple computers" is not the same as "graph multiple computers' use from your computer", so unless they're unable to make sentences correctly, that wont help either.

If you want to see overall traffic on your router (not per IP), you'll need to run something like MRTG which uses the SNMP features on your router (if they have them) which can give a graph (http://internal.yerwol.co.uk/mrtg/ thats the one for my broadband)

Or if you want to see which IP is doing what, have a dedicated machine that acts as a router which connects to your local lan, and then to the actual broadband router. Although whilst you're at it, and you want to see who is doing what, you may as well stick a packet logger on it and just take as much privacy away from the other users of your network too, steal their msn conversations, or any other chat that goes over in plaintext and see what websites they're viewing in their spare time. Of course, having this in the way will make everyones connections a little bit crappier as theyre having to be processed by another machine?

Not knowing the context of your network, could you not just ask who else is using the internet and ask them to not use it so much? I feel this is the easiest method to find out who is playing what. How many people are there sharing the one connection / what sort of connection is it / what speeds do you want out of your share of it / what do the other people use it for. E.g. if theyre using p2p stuff, you could request that they do it overnight when noones using the network?

If you want your own speeds all for yourself, phone BT, install another line, and buy another broadband package just for you .

 

[Haven]

If your router supports it then Netflow is your best option. You have a network not a client monitoring issue by the look of it.