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Russ

 posted on 27th Feb 06 at 22:31

what does he download? torrents? see what ports his torrent program uses and block them.....


Tim

 posted on 27th Feb 06 at 21:41

What model?


James

 posted on 27th Feb 06 at 21:14

just using an ADSL wireless router


Tim

 posted on 27th Feb 06 at 20:59

That will only monitor one PC so pretty pointless unless you can sneak it onto his.

Are you running a switched network or just using a basic hub? If it's just a hub you could use a sniffer to analyse network traffic...


Skylined

 posted on 27th Feb 06 at 19:35

http://www.download.com/Bandwidth-Monitor-Pro/3000-2085_4-10338480.html?tag=lst-0-3


JJ

 posted on 27th Feb 06 at 18:22

quote:
Originally posted by Cybermonkey
just disconnect the fucker and tell him to stop being a bandwidth whore


:thumbs:


Cybermonkey

 posted on 27th Feb 06 at 11:30

just disconnect the fucker and tell him to stop being a bandwidth whore


willay

 posted on 27th Feb 06 at 07:23

quote:
Originally posted by Dan B
Check if your router supports SNMP......if it does, look into either MRTG or PRTG, both are decent monitoring programs that let you monitor traffic (amongst other things) on network devices......that would likely tell you straight away who was using what. Although, to use that method, how exactly is everyone connected up on the network? Draw something simple in MSPaint, or similar......easier to say the best way to monitor, then.



This is a fab way but as said not easy to look at it from an internal IP basis, instead you will know that your router has passed x amount of bandwidth through y amount of time.

Also note that MRTG and stuff based one that (using rrdtool) output 5 minute averages which dont always pick up them spikes in traffic.


Russ

 posted on 27th Feb 06 at 00:31

just block his ports :)


Dan B

 posted on 27th Feb 06 at 00:30

If there's nothing on the router that monitors it, then there's not really an easy way, no......the "easiest" way would be to put a server in between the router and your internal network, set all of the 7 computers with static NAT'd IP addresses, then have the server monitor each IP's traffic. Not the simplest things to set up, though...

Check if your router supports SNMP......if it does, look into either MRTG or PRTG, both are decent monitoring programs that let you monitor traffic (amongst other things) on network devices......that would likely tell you straight away who was using what. Although, to use that method, how exactly is everyone connected up on the network? Draw something simple in MSPaint, or similar......easier to say the best way to monitor, then.


Mase

 posted on 27th Feb 06 at 00:26

i'd be interested in this sort of software too, because apparently we are falling foul of Tiscali's FUP, so i want to check they have got their sums right .....


James

 posted on 27th Feb 06 at 00:20

We have a 2mb broadband connection in our flat and its being split across 7 computers.

Lately its been like dial up speeds and I think it's because my housemate is constantly downloading videos etc 24/7.

Is there anyway I can see which computers are using most bandwidth? Ive had a look on the router software and theres nothing on there.

cheers