Wireless router traffic monitor

[Montezuma]

I have few neighbors around me and far to few of them could probably even power a computer on, much the less use one. I usually always set the mac filter to only allow connections from mac addresses I list/add. I purchased a new router and forgot to enable mac filtering and today I found that someone has/had connected to that wireless router from a computer/wireless device I do not own.

I was wondering if anyone knows of a decent and/or free traffic monitor that can pull log data from wireless router(the one I am referring to is Linksys WRT54G v.8) and tag IPs, maybe computer names and MAC addresses as well. Thank you.

 

[thehelo]

why not just enable wpa or wpa2

 

[dbdb]

why not just enable wpa or wpa2

Obviously not as much fun as watching someone.

 

[Maasikas]

I have Mac and I use ProteMac Meter, it's a network traffic logger. I guess, you can somehow use it in wireless network, however it's for Mac OS only

 

[Guest]

Use the free aplication Wireshark, you will find it very usefull...

 

[Guest]

you can setup your router as static ip instead of dynamic......to enable your router.....at internet explorer....type 192.168.1.1 then enter your user name and passwords.....good luck

 

[dasli]

yeah...agree with Maasikas, ProteMac Meter nice prog

 

[Killed Kenny]

I use ProteMac Meter It's very useful prog!

 

[devo4ka]

protemac.com is very good site!!! I use ProteMac Logon Sentry (to control and save all Login events) if you are interested in, you can read more here - http://www.protemac.com/Logon_Sentry/

 

[SofiaBrown]

Thanks for the solution I am also facing this same kind of problem. I use this tool and see the what are the results.

 

[Hutchings_18]

Hi,
I'll be trying the suggestions here shortly, but wanted to tell my story just incase there are any other solutions out there...

BT (my ISP) have started charging me £35 a month on top of my monthly tariff! They say I'm using more than my 10Gb monthly limit. In fact, they say I'm exceeding 20Gb! I totally dispute this but telephone Customer Services and they won't give me a breakdown of my downloading.

I'd like to set a traffic monitor on my wireless router to see what's going on.

I have an iPad, two iPhones, and a laptop. Can I use the ProteMac software mentioned above? Or is there something more suitable for my situation?

Thanks,
Hutch.