Best network monitoring tool for windows 8?

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videogamingtown

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Does anyone know the best monitoring tool for windows8 ? i want to be able to see
what is using my internet bandwidth. When im watching a stream it is buffering every few
seconds and i have a fast connection so this means something else is using the internet
is there anything that shows what applications or processes are using bandwidth in real time? The built in network monitor sucks so please don't suggest that.
 
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Unless they removed the resource monitor in win 8 that will show you all the processes and how much data each is sending and receiving. I figured you had already looked at that and discovered it was all tied to a single thing like firefox or something.

What you ask for is not a trivial thing to figure out. If it truly a network issue you have to actually find the delays or packet loss. If you get lucky you will find something that i sending burst of traffic but it is far more likely you will find the application itself has some issue when you are not constrained by network capacity.
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bill001g

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If you only have a single machine using internet wireshark will capture every packet so you can see in detail if you really care. It has some pretty nice built in reports if you do not need the details of the packets.

If you have multiple machines wireshark is still a good tool but you now get the issue of how do you actually obtain the data from multiple machines to actually analyze it. This gets very complex very fast since really your router is the only device that sees all the traffic and most have no ability to capture traffic or produce meaningful reports.
 
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I'm looking for something a lot more basic, i just want to see which application is sending or recieving in a very basic interface. I'm no Network pro and this is purely for one machine

 
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bill001g

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Unless they removed the resource monitor in win 8 that will show you all the processes and how much data each is sending and receiving. I figured you had already looked at that and discovered it was all tied to a single thing like firefox or something.

What you ask for is not a trivial thing to figure out. If it truly a network issue you have to actually find the delays or packet loss. If you get lucky you will find something that i sending burst of traffic but it is far more likely you will find the application itself has some issue when you are not constrained by network capacity.
 
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