hoopa 0 Report post Posted February 26, 2008 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MeanorDljato 0 Report post Posted February 26, 2008 as far as i remember dumeter can do that. but have you tried the built in function in vista computermanagementor the taskmanger in xp? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dserban 0 Report post Posted February 26, 2008 I don't think there is any piece of freeware that does what you want.There is however NetLimiter (http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/) but it's for a single PC, not for a LAN. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yordan 10 Report post Posted February 26, 2008 have a look at what I obtained with the asta shoutbox :http://forums.xisto.com/index.php?act=Searlite=%2Bsniffer and more precisely at this topic : http://forums.xisto.com/index.php?showtopi&hl=sniffer RegardsYordan Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ethergeek 0 Report post Posted February 26, 2008 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wutske 0 Report post Posted February 26, 2008 Maybe something like this ? http://www.wildpackets.com/rtna_video Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ethergeek 0 Report post Posted February 28, 2008 I forgot to add that your cable modem or dsl modem might expose the necessary SNMP OIDs to look at byte counts, which you could plug into MRTG. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hoopa 0 Report post Posted February 28, 2008 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
faulty.lee 0 Report post Posted March 3, 2008 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FirefoxRocks 0 Report post Posted March 12, 2008 Maybe today's Download.com Featured article may help: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/. It lists 2 pieces of freeware and one piece of shareware that you can try out. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
xboxrocks 0 Report post Posted June 10, 2008 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Atomic0 0 Report post Posted June 25, 2008 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites