[Solved] Bandwidth Monitoring and/or Control Question

Good day!

Not sure if I am in the correct area of the forums as I am new.

I have a question regarding monitoring the speed of my internet connection and the speed that gets distributed by my router.

I have 1 desktop computer connected via cable to my router and I have 2 laptops connecting remotely.

Here is a list of things I would like to be able to achieve if its possible

1. Monitor the bandwidth speed that comes to my router - preferrably via a real time graph like what you get when you are downloading something
2. Monitor the bandwidth provided to my desktop computer
3. Monitor the bandwidth that is provided to the laptops that connect via wireless to my router.
4. Allocate bandwidth to a specific computer of my choice at a given time.

I also fear of some software that are invasive and installs stuff that I do not want. I also don't want software that will allow me to do this things but then consume bandwidth of its own because I live in a third world country and we don't have much speed to start width.


(i hope i am using correct terms like speed and bandwidth because frankly I am so new to this stuff that I don't know if there is a difference)

Thank you in advance

Hi! Just giving this thread a nudge. Sorry.

You won't be able to do a lot of the things you want to do with a home router as they are limited in features. You might be able to monitor some traffic on the router.

You can try this:
http://leonidvm.chat.ru/

or google for this: smtp traffic grapher for other traffic graphs.

It depends? What did you plan on using? Web sites like speedtest.net give a snapshot of your speed at the time you run the test. Traffic graphers can log information as well as they usually have 5 minutes or more of data on the screen at once. If you don't need to track your data, sure, use what you want.

Thank you for replying. I tried the program you suggested and I wasn't able to maximize the use since there are a lot of terms I didn't know and a lot of settings to tweak. But I have found a similar application freemeter bandwidth monitor which gives me the basics thank you very much for taking the time to reply!