need a firewall that can monitor external bandwidth

i'm not 100% sure now..
but i think that you should be able to do that with the Kerio Firewall

you can get it ==> http://www.kerio.com

much luck
riotz

i was after a hardware firewall with software that could also do the monitoring

You can try 3com superstack firewalls. It will monitor each ip address in your organization and keep a log of ports and services used the most. You can also set the firewall to send you e-mail logs.

Francisco

Netscreens are good

I like SonicWall firewalls. Many SonicWall firewalls come with a license for SonicWall Viewpoint, which is very good at looking at what sites each computer is accessing. I run the SonicWall 4060 using Viewpoint and the interface is very easy to use and the reporting is even better. Only thing with that is that you have to create a user for each person and they have to log into the firewall when they open IE. Kinda of annoying, but you can set it to a max of 99 minutes of internet inactivity before it will ask again. The sonicwall also offers the Content filtering, which allows you to restict sites by genre.

I believe GNAT box and Sidewinder also do this.

You could use Smoothwall, that has bandwidth usage graphs etc..., costs nothing just need a old pc to run it on.
www.smoothwall.org