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| Thread ID: 122075 | 2011-11-29 05:02:00 | Braod Band Monitoring on a home network | karljo (8430) | Press F1 |
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| 1246216 | 2011-11-29 05:02:00 | Have searched the forum and googled the topic but have not found anything that meets what I need at a price I can afford. I have a home network with 2 laptops running Win7, a desktop running Win7 and a desktop running XP Pro. Also have a teenage son who watches quite a bit of Youtube and does not believe he is using a lot of bandwidth (3Gb today). I have just upped my data plan and don't plan to do it again soon. Using Orcon as ISP. Have an DL ADSL modem/router (incl wireless) DSL G604T) and another DLink router/wireless making up the network. All except one PC is connected to the router only all by wireless with WPA. Can anyone point me to monitoring software that they have used successfullly. C an either be installed on individual PCs or preferably something I can monitor from one although every solution I have looked like this is over US$200. Free is good! Thanks, John |
karljo (8430) | ||
| 1246217 | 2011-11-29 05:18:00 | Block youtube in the router. Then noone will be able to go there. That'll fix it | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1246218 | 2011-11-29 05:30:00 | Give www.softperfect.com (www.softperfect.com) a try, it monitors in real time and is free. Download link is near the bottom left box of the page.(under quick Info) See attachment - started a random video on you tube, and after 13 Seconds you can see how much traffic is used from this video alone. Maybe just watching the MB tick by on one video will prove or scare the truth into him. ;) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1246219 | 2011-11-29 07:10:00 | Viruses and P2P programs can also waste a lot of data too. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1246220 | 2011-11-29 08:25:00 | The easiest and only infallible way of doing it is through the router. Software is easily turned off by people in denial. I know, I've tried it, and seen people disable it. Get yourself a Linksys WRT54GL. Flash it with Gargoyle firmware (It's a 30 second job to do it). From there, the router is able to provide each PC with a daily, weekly or monthly limit. For example you could suggest that if you have 10GB per-month that in a family of 3 (Presuming you have one child) your son could get away with 4GB a month, or 1GB per-week. Once that is set in the router, and he goes over, he's up the creek without a paddle, and the internet will simply "not work" on his machine. Then you have the issue my in-laws face, where their youngest son then jumps on the mothers netbook and uses all her data up after that.... ;) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1246221 | 2011-11-29 08:26:00 | Links: pbtech.co.nz(no-ADSL http://www.gargoyle-router.com Demo screenshot showing how simple the Quotas are to setup: www.gargoyle-router.com :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1246222 | 2011-11-29 08:34:00 | Thanks for the responses esp Wainuitech. That youtube image scared me as well. Have tried to download networx and norton keeps treating it like a virus and removes it. |
karljo (8430) | ||
| 1246223 | 2011-11-29 18:02:00 | The down side of software like that, is if your son knows he's about to go sit on YouTube for 15-30 minutes, he can just close it and load it back up again afterwards... So at the end of the month you have a discrepancy between how much the rest of the family has used + him, vs the amount your ISP says you've used. Doing it on the router means he can't get around it, and you'll *know* when he's hit his limit because you'll hear "Daaaaaaaad why does my internet not work?". Then you get the pleasure of saying "Well Son, we've proved you use all the internet by giving everybody 1GB a week. It's been less than 24 hours and you've used yours. You're stuck for the rest of the week now" :D :D :D Note: You could increase his data cap in the event that happens, just in case there's something he needs like internet for schoolwork |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1246224 | 2011-11-29 19:04:00 | The file is not a virus, its your Norton thinking it is. False positive. Some antivirus software detect any program that monitors or looks for information as an infection. If you go to a online scanner like http://www.virustotal.com/ and let it run the file, it is scanned by 43 ( at prescent) different scanners, all come back clean ( under results). if you wanted to use the program and you have Norton, then you would have to make an exception and tell it its OK. @ Chill-- A question regarding gargole == I notice by the pictures posted it looks and you can set the restrictions Via a IP address. -- Can you set Gargoyle by the MAC address of the network Connection ?? Reason being, and the first thing I thought of being a tech -- Simple way to avoid that is reset the IP address on the PC concerned if using static -- and if the router is issuing the IP's then all it would take is a different IP to be issued, and it defeats the Gargoyle ???? Just re the comment: The down side of software like that, is if your son knows he's about to go sit on YouTube for 15-30 minutes, he can just close it and load it back up again afterwards... You can password protect it. If it were turned off then it would log that as well, so questions could be asked as to why it was turned off. Gargoyle looks a better option, but unless it has to do MAC address filtering, IP only is easy to bypass and could soon be looked up on the internet as to how. If a person is smart enough to disable a program Via password, then they know how to get into the router and disable what they need to. Seen it many times teens trying to see what the user name and passwords are for setting. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1246225 | 2011-11-29 19:29:00 | Hosts file :D! You'll hear screams of "WHY CANT I GET TO YOUTUBE?!" "THIS ISNT YOUTUBE..ITS GOOGLE!" As long as you know how to configure the Hosts file, things could get very interesting. |
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