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how do i use it it looks pretty complicated?
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its called wireshark now <a href="http://www.wireshark.org/" rel="ugc">http://www.wireshark.org/</a>
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A great way to get good information over a long period of time is a monitoring tool called Cacti (<a href="http://www.cacti.net/" rel="ugc">http://www.cacti.net/</a>). &nbsp;A LiveCD version is available so you could boot to it on a system temporarily and gather stats long as you wish. &nbsp;I use it for all sorts of devices.
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I bought this and its seems to do the business for basic stats, thats all i need.
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<a href="http://www.bwmonitor.com/" rel="ugc">http://www.bwmonitor.com/</a>
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Another thing to look at is if there are any P2P users on the network. &nbsp;If they are running a P2P app or a BitTorrent app your bandwidth can get pounded.
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i have them all blocked using the sonicwall and have tested this also :(
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I have a cient who has a 12mb dsl package and its goes really slow at certains time as i can seem to finf the root cause is there any easy to use software out there that can capture the source of the bandwidth usage? as i need to find out what is slowing down the net access.<br />
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Cheers
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Hi

I have a cient who has a 12mb dsl package and its goes really slow at certains time as i can seem to finf the root cause is there any easy to use software out there that can capture the source of the bandwidth usage? as i need to find out what is slowing down the net access.

Cheers

how do i use it it looks pretty complicated?

its called wireshark now http://www.wireshark.org/

A great way to get good information over a long period of time is a monitoring tool called Cacti (http://www.cacti.net/).  A LiveCD version is available so you could boot to it on a system temporarily and gather stats long as you wish.  I use it for all sorts of devices.

I bought this and its seems to do the business for basic stats, thats all i need.

Another thing to look at is if there are any P2P users on the network.  If they are running a P2P app or a BitTorrent app your bandwidth can get pounded.

i have them all blocked using the sonicwall and have tested this also :(

Software to monitor bandwidth usage

The term broadband commonly refers to high-speed Internet access that is always on and faster than the traditional dial-up access. Broadband includes several high-speed transmission technologies such as digital subscriber line (DSL), cable, fiber optics, wireless (for which there is a separate topic), satellite and broadband over powerlines (BPL).