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Router Monitor

Hi,

I am trying to monitor network usage in my home environment.

I have a Netgear wireless ADSL router through which all the machines on my network connect to the net. The Router management console is quite useless in giving me info on what traffic is going through.

I have 2 PC's an Xbox and at times up to 3 laptops connected to the internet.

I would like to have an idea of how much traffic each connected machine generates over a period of time. It would be a bonus if I could also see what traffic it was - Multiplayer online gaming from the Xbox, downloading from the pc's, general browsing etc.

I know I am not asking for much!!! *lol*

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stsonline

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ampranti

An easy and fast solution would be to install a simple monitoring program on each pc to estimate the data send and received .... You can find easily one by search google for free.

Differently,you may install MRTG on one pc, enable snmp service to all devices and monitor the traffic exchanged between them.

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Kamran Arshad

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stsonline

Got a good list here... any help?

Camojoe

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I was probably not clear in my original question - I do not want to monitor individual pc's on the network (i.e. install something on each pc and then check on it) I am looking for something that I can monitor my router with. It seems I might have to setup a machine between my router and the rest of my network - i.e. firewall etc. to accomplish this.