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Internet Usage (Bandwidth) Monitoring

Here's my situation: I manage a small (~20 user) network. All on a single subnet attached to a SonicWALL Pro1260. WAN connection is a single T1. From time to time Internet access becomes "slow" (i.e. heavy usage) and this prompts the boss to ask, "WHO is using up the bandwidth?"

Is there a straight forward way to monitor, in real-time, what bandwidth is being used by each IP address on our LAN? (Who's browsing a vendor site, who's downloading an iso, who's streaming video -- you get the idea.)

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Ugo Mena

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slattdog

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Thanks ultralites. That is what I have been doing. I would like something more graphical that would show me what percentage of the T1 is being used by a specific user (PC) and would update real-time so that I could monitor it easier.

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slattdog

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I'm giving Viewpoint a whirl. Great reporting! Not sure about the real-time data yet.

I have the Kiwi Syslog, and no problem collecting data, but quite honestly most of it doesn't mean a lot to me. I am just running the free version. Is there any sort of an add-on that would help me analyze the data? I don't see, for example, any way to translate all the information it is giving me into actual bandwidth being utilized, etc.

Thanks again!

Ugo Mena

not totally sure, but I think you can use Viewpoint to analyze any/all syslogs, just point your device to the Viewpoint server as its syslog server.

slattdog

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Thanks ultralites. I'll have to play around with it for a while -- but this should get me going in the right direction anyway.