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After stumbling though MRTG I decided to give up on it. Ultimitley I could not get it to do anything for me and have no idea why and therefore didnt know where to goto next with it. PRTG on the otherhand is awesome and I set it up no problem. What a great tool. Thanks for the suggestion. 
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After stumbling though MRTG I decided to give up on it. Ultimitley I could not get it to do anything for me and have no idea why and therefore didnt know where to goto next with it. PRTG on the otherhand is awesome and I set it up no problem. What a great tool. Thanks for the suggestion.

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I need to measure the bandwidth of client pc's in a department that will be moved to a new site that is under construction. &nbsp;The 30 workstations are part of a windows 2000/2003 server environment running XP pro. I have been trying to set up MRTG from my client pc to monitor the bandwidth usage so we can decide what type of bandwidth we need at the new site. I havent succeeded yet with using MRTG and would like to know do I have to have SNMP service installed on just my machine or all 30 I am trying to monitor? Do you recommend a different approach?
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I need to measure the bandwidth of client pc's in a department that will be moved to a new site that is under construction.  The 30 workstations are part of a windows 2000/2003 server environment running XP pro. I have been trying to set up MRTG from my client pc to monitor the bandwidth usage so we can decide what type of bandwidth we need at the new site. I havent succeeded yet with using MRTG and would like to know do I have to have SNMP service installed on just my machine or all 30 I am trying to monitor? Do you recommend a different approach?

Measuring bandwith on client pc's

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