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Hi all,Does anyone know of any bandwidth monitoring software for a LANs? I have seen utilities for gateway servers, but I need a utility that I can use from my PC (one of the nodes on the LAN). Even some sort of traffic monitor would probably suffice for what I'm after, but I haven't been able to find anything suitable.Cheers,Hoopa

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The way I do it is to turn SNMP services on my router on and point MRTG at it. Granted, the MRTG stuff runs on the router, but you could conceivably run it from another machine as long as your SNMP daemon allows connections from other machines to read the necessary OIDs to get the byte counts.

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Hi all,Thanks for the numerous responses. From looking at the problem again it seems that the most logical place for this to sit would be the router itself, but I'm not exactly a network specialist so a solution may not get that advanced. I tried ethereal, but couldn't even get the exe to open as it was corrupt, and they had taken down the other mirror sites. I will give the wildpackets demo a try when I get a moment and see if I have any better luck with that one ;)Cheers,Hoopa

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If you're trying to monitor just your own pc, then you can try bitmeter2. It's quite good and useful, at least for me. If you want to monitor overall network bandwidth, you'll need a "managed" router or "managed" switch. These are intelligent router or switch where you can control and monitor bandwidth allocation and usage. No doubt, with these powerful features, it comes at a higher cost.

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Use dumeter tho its a trial. see have a 50gb down limit if i use du meter cause i do a little to much of watching youtube and other online videos i'm hooked on that lol and i watch all kinds of storys and weather channel online cause i don't care to pay for sat tv and free tv so blury you can't see crap.

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A quick Google would show up numerous results for bandwidth tracking software. For me personally, I am using a Firefox extension called Net Usage Item (http://netusage.iau5.com/) which currently supports a range of Internet Service Providers (especially in Australia). It takes the download usage directly from the ISP feed and displays it.

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