 NerdtalkerWorking Hard, Or Hardly Working?Premium,MVM
join:2003-02-18
Tucson, AZ
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Re: Bandwidth Monitor for Computers-Suggestions? Excellent, excellent, excellent thread. You beat me to it by a tiny bit  honestly!
A lot of these posts have focused on client-side monitoring, but this isn't robust enough.
Client-Side:
• Linux - vnstat »humdi.net/vnstat/ (very basic, linux based bandwidth reporting and monitoring)
• Windows - DuMeter »www.dumeter.com/ (very popular, excellent set of tools and reporting, but also only for individual clients. Nice prediction features)
• Windows - BandwidthMonitor »www.bwmonitor.com/ (haven't used it, but seems robust and similar to DuMeter)
• Windows - BW Meter »www.softpedia.com/get/Network-To···er.shtml (seems pretty good, similar to the last two)
Router-Side:
• WRT54G/GS/GL/e.t.c. - Tomato »www.polarcloud.com/tomato (Excellent real-time, last 24 hours, daily, weekly, and monthly bandwidth reporting for every interface. This is what I use and recommend the most since it works so well and represents all traffic passing the WAN)
• Server - MRTG »www.mrtg.com/ (Basic, seems depreciated by cacti, but still works, doesn't give an actual bit-statistic of use though)
• Server - Cacti »www.cacti.net/ (very comprehensive tool for bandwidth monitoring via SNMP, evolved from MRTG)
• DDWRT?
• PfSense/m0n0wall
• Others I don't know about? |
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 Unit649I B U, Who U B?Premium
join:2000-01-22
Stockton, CA
1 edit | No problem 
The only reason I'm asking is because I have more than myself to support also. Flashing the router, though something I may eventually do myself, will probably not be something that some of the friends I have would want me to do
Part of the reason that I was asking out here. I know we're all a bit more on the advanced side, but for "Joe Schmoe" I'd rather just have an easy software solution that can sit in the tray and be easily checked.
Thanks for the tips so far everyone, I'll be checking back and checking out whats been presented so far. I think this is a good idea-I'm sure the publicity created by this happening will probably be drawing people to this site, and invaribly, here. |
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 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-11
Yarmouth Port, MA
kudos:6 | reply to Nerdtalker
I think that some routers also have UPNP interfaces that might report back these statistics. I haven't looked for UPNP tools in a couple of years -- anyone have any favorites? |
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 Vchat20Landing is the REAL challengePremium
join:2003-09-16
Columbus, OH | reply to Nerdtalker
said by Nerdtalker:• Windows - DuMeter » www.dumeter.com/ (very popular, excellent set of tools and reporting, but also only for individual clients. Nice prediction features) Netmeter: »www.metal-machine.de/readerror/
A freeware clone of DUmeter. Not AS feature packed, but pretty darn close.
The newer v24 RC builds include a bandwidth tracker. Those builds are pretty damn stable for basic home setups that I have seen.
Pretty sure these have some facility for this, yes.
Smoothwall, which is another *nix based router distro like the above, has a user-built mod built exactly for tracking cap usage and can track usage by IP on the LAN side. Check the forums for more info.
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I swear, some people should have pace-makers installed to free up the resources. Breathing and heart beat taxes their whole system, all of their brain cells wasted on life support.-two bit brains, and the second bit is wasted on parity! ~head_spaz |
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I use the DU Meter [url]»www.dumeter.com/[/url].. I been using it for quite sometime. It works great & can create a spreadsheet of usage for daily/weekly/month usage. I have it on all my PC's on my network. This way I can monitor the b/w, not too mention it is a quick way to see if spyware is trying to send data... |
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