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| Thread ID: 89117 | 2008-04-21 08:03:00 | Smart Bandwidth monitoring of Internet-only traffic based on IP? | Chilling_Silence (9) | Press F1 |
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| 660882 | 2008-04-21 08:03:00 | Greets all, So, now that most of the family has their own laptop, we're chewing through the bandwidth. We spent about 10 days of last month capped even WITH me trying to keep an eye on what our usage was and NO downloading of my own :( Uncapped yesterday and we went through 2.6GB?! :O We're capped today, but thankfully being on Ihugs Broadband 3 plan means tomorrow we're back to full-speed. However, we're heading the right direction for being capped after 10-odd days this month :( So, my solution? Install local bandwidth monitoring software on each PC / Laptop (My Linux desktop doesnt matter -- Its more server now than Desktop use) I tried a few like FreeMeter & Rokario's Bandwidth Monitor, but I noticed that as soon as I copied the setup files across the network that they were being counted as "traffic" which I dont want because they wont count toward our monthly online usage. So, here's my network layout: www.gliffy.com Basically I want to be able to say to the software "If its going to 192.168.0.X or 192.168.1.X then ignore the traffic or log it totally separately" This is mostly because the family frequently enjoys a game of Age of Conquerors, or streams media across the network, none of which will count towards our internet usage. It'd be nice if the software could sit down in the systray and possibly even be password protected (not essential thou). Any suggestions appreciated, I'd prefer if it were free too... Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 660883 | 2008-04-21 08:40:00 | Perhaps even just filtering based on Port? So ports 80 is obviously logged, but the SMB port isnt (Windows filesharing)... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 660884 | 2008-04-21 09:26:00 | mmm, if anyone has the answer, I would be interested in it too. Have similar issues at home. Not quite as large a network as Chill though ofcourse :P | Deathwish (143) | ||
| 660885 | 2008-04-21 09:36:00 | Chill: Is it an option for you to tweak your network a little bit, so that everyone sees your PC as the "gateway", which will allow you to do the monitoring at your end? I've been successfully using a linux app called "netacctd-mysql" which monitors internet-bound traffic, and logs it to a MySQL server. I have written a quick and dirty PHP script which fetches the data and displays it nicely. An approach like this will mean that you need to leave your PC on 24/7 however... |
somebody (208) | ||
| 660886 | 2008-04-21 11:53:00 | My PC's on 24/7 anyways, so that wouldnt be a problem. If traffic could be routed to / through my SubAtomix box somehow then cool but right now it bypasses it altogether and I'd rather avoid a huge LAN makeover if I could... :-/ Had thought of installing something like Squid & giving them all usernames / passwords for the proxy, but that may be a little much for me at the moment. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 660887 | 2008-04-21 12:13:00 | Maybe you need to kindly ask your family what they are doing on the internet?? And maybe need to check all the laptops to see if they are downloading any updates etc… Your wireless network is secure?? |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 660888 | 2008-04-21 15:05:00 | You could try the Bandwidth monitor in my sig. It identifies the traffic carried through each network adapter (theres like 10 on my laptop for some reason) and then lists the traffic on each individual adapter. If you could isolate the right adapter, you would get the metric that you need. |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 660889 | 2008-04-21 21:04:00 | Ive got a couple that do all traffic through a certain adapter, but they also include things like smb traffic, or other internal traffic which I dont want to "count".. Stu, I did, they all denied it, however I know one of them has been gaming from time to time, and another watches 10-15 videos a day on YouTUBE, I just cant prove it... Will give BB Meter a try for now, thanks :) Any other ideas? |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 660890 | 2008-04-22 06:09:00 | I've looked for similar programs before too, but gave up thanks to your post now I've found this after wasting some time on google: www.trafficstatistic.com I've tested the window version for 10min seems to work fine on xp you can easily exclude traffic from local addresses also there's a linux version! haven't tried that yet however it does install WinPcap (an old beta version...) and it also starts two services one is a http server of some sort to generate its reports and I'm guessing the other records the traffic then there's a GUI to display all the stuff, which doesn't have to be running for traffic recording to work edit: forgot to mention, it's free |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 660891 | 2008-04-22 06:38:00 | Linux proxy + Squid etc = best way around this problem. At work we have that set up, can monitor all bandwidth and limit if necessary, and it's also set up to cache, and we save about 4 GB a month of our approx 20GB usage. Maybe some time in the future when you have a bit of time on your hands. :) |
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