Bandwidth monitoring software?

kgrevemberg · Jul 14, 2015

Hey guys, I'm trying to find a simple bandwidth usage software to monitor a small network for usage. I just need to see what my pc and other devices on my network are using. It doesn't have to be complex. I tried one from Solar Winds but it was complicated for me.

Alabalcho · Jul 14, 2015

That software must reside in your router (that is, must be supported by the router' firmware). A standalone PC sitting on the network does not know anything about the traffic other PCs exchange with the router.

bill001g · Jul 14, 2015

You will need software support on the router for things such as solar winds. Most consumer routers do not have support you end up having to load third party firmware. Even with third party firmware the data is extremely limited the router really has no place to store usage data.
The best way to get good usage data is to use netflow...it is called something similar in things like dd-wrt. The router only collects the data you still need a dedicated server to store and produce the reports.

Kewlx25 · Jul 14, 2015

If you need your bandwidth well categorized, then you need something with more DPI style stuff, but if you just want basic stuff like bandwidth in/out, even PFSense will make pretty graphs.

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AlCaughey · Jul 31, 2015

Can you flash your router to DD-WRT or OpenWRT or Asus-WRT? If yes, please forgive this shameless plug but I've written an (open source) add-on (called YAMon) that gives you a breakdown of traffic usage by every device connected to your router. Devices can be organized into arbitrary groupings (e.g., by device owner or function) and data is aggregated into hourly, daily and monthly usage reports.

There are several thousand users currently running YAMon. See http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=259806 for all the details.

Al

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