Home network monitoring?

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Originally Posted by Scothew

I think I figured out a portion of hte problem.

My wife plays Gardens of Time on facebook, and we tested it this morning and just opening and launching the app on there eats up 11MB each time. We closed it so I dont know how much throughput it uses during the course of play, but dang 11MB each time?!

The microsoft app Markem posted earlier is dang nice and alot easier to comprehend than wireshark IMO.

Thanks guys

Agreed, Mark made some good suggestions. Do you have a router of some kind splitting up your internet connection to multiple devices? It sounds like you do. If so, most of them have a web interface that allows you to configure them. It may also allow you to keep tabs on bandwidth.

To find out, try this:

1. Open a command prompt (Start, Run, cmd, Enter) or under Accessories
2. Type: ipconfig then hit Enter.
3. Note the IP of your gateway. This is usually your router's IP address.
4. Open a browser window and type in that IP. You may need to change the beginning from http://IP to https://IP. Some WiFi routers will also not allow this from a wireless device. So try it from a wired computer.
5. It should prompt you for a name and password. Once you're in, you may find a way to see what IPs are using all your bandwidth at any given time.


Another individual PC idea would be to just right click on the taskbar, choose Stark Task Manager, then click on the networking tab. This will show you current bandwidth usage on that PC.

Mike

[Scothew]

Originally Posted by 357

Agreed, Mark made some good suggestions. Do you have a router of some kind splitting up your internet connection to multiple devices? It sounds like you do. If so, most of them have a web interface that allows you to configure them. It may also allow you to keep tabs on bandwidth.

To find out, try this:

1. Open a command prompt (Start, Run, cmd, Enter) or under Accessories
2. Type: ipconfig then hit Enter.
3. Note the IP of your gateway. This is usually your router's IP address.
4. Open a browser window and type in that IP. You may need to change the beginning from http://IP to https://IP. Some WiFi routers will also not allow this from a wireless device. So try it from a wired computer.
5. It should prompt you for a name and password. Once you're in, you may find a way to see what IPs are using all your bandwidth at any given time.


Another individual PC idea would be to just right click on the taskbar, choose Stark Task Manager, then click on the networking tab. This will show you current bandwidth usage on that PC.

Mike

I've messed around in the web interface on it, Its got internet sessions area and stats but doesn't really give me alot of useful info. if you wanna look at an emulator, this is the same firmware and router i use. http://support.dlink.com/emulators/d...3NA/Login.html