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| 725401 | 2008-12-03 06:52:00 | Whats a good free bandwith monitor that tells me how much bandwith each pc its installed on has used each day? | aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 725402 | 2008-12-03 08:52:00 | Its not free, but you can *not* beat BWMeter! See: www.desksoft.com Its great coz it distinguishes between LAN traffic & Internet traffic :) We chucked it on 5 machines around here when we wanted to figure out who was *actually* the culprit and using all the Usage ... We found out it was actually the person we least expected! :p |
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| 725403 | 2008-12-03 09:09:00 | heh does Microsoft's ISA server have something like that? I know who the culprit is, i just need proof | aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 725404 | 2008-12-03 09:47:00 | Just use the trial then .. ? You *could* setup a proxy of some description, Im sure it does, but BWMeter is just so much easier ;) Be sure to password protect it, AND start it on boot, as a service is ideal ... AND hide the little systray icon too :D |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 725405 | 2008-12-03 09:51:00 | whether its "easier" doesnt really matter. Might give it a shot, though something server based does sound more promising (means certain ppl cant escape monitoring) | aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 725406 | 2008-12-03 19:14:00 | Try this, www.easyfreeware.com |
Slim (4633) | ||
| 725407 | 2008-12-04 08:27:00 | There's one in Beeswax's sig called Tautology Bandwidth Meter and it does an OK job Or, if you have a supported router you can use Open WRT or Tomato firmware for your router which features an inbuilt bandwidth monitor |
Blam (54) | ||
| 725408 | 2008-12-04 09:36:00 | There's one in Beeswax's sig called Tautology Bandwidth Meter and it does an OK job Or, if you have a supported router you can use Open WRT or Tomato firmware for your router which features an inbuilt bandwidth monitor Yeah, I was going to suggest the one in my sig but I thought he wanted to remotely monitor each PC's usage. If not, then its really good. |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 725409 | 2008-12-04 12:00:00 | Problem is many apps like that (Without having specifically used that, but based on what the screenshots look like) is that they fail to distinguish between local traffic & internet traffic. If I copy across a few hundred MB across the network, then apps like that simply count it as "traffic" which doesnt help if you're wanting to find out who's using all the *internet* traffic. Took me quite a few apps before I found BWMeter. It was a major issue for my family as we store a lot on my fileserver, some days the kids can go through a few gigs of data transfer.. other days its a few hundred megs of internet usage... having the two differentiated made a huge difference :) |
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