How to tell bandwidth usage?

Question

Is there any way to tell which people on a home network is using how much bandwidth? I live in a house with five other people and since I own the router and pay for internet I'd like to limit certain people's bandwidth usage. But I'd have to know which person is using how much bandwidth, so I'd like to know if there's any way to monitor this.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

yes there is. I dont have the links anymore. just google [freeware network monitoring tools] and you should be anle to find something.

Answer 2

What you are wanting to do costs alot of money. You will need a cisco or equivilent style router that does statistics (rmon functions). For a home situation, this is just not ecconomical unless you are willing to spend around $5,000. The little routers that you buy from the store will not do what you want them to do. That kind of functionality is quite expensive.





Yes you can download free network traffic analysers and track bandwidth usage. But I doubt your home router can throttle down it's links. And the wireless routers do not do this either!

Answer 3

if you have an intelligent router, you can keep stats like that via SNMP or netflow, but its doubtful the cheap linksys/netgear boxes you buy at best buy or will have anything capable of what you want.

Answer 4

properly, you will come across Your utilization in the cyber web internet site Of Your Broadband. All u choose is to Login on your Account And Get the utilization info. in many cases that is going to be Displayed in KB.. Jus reproduction the entire utilization and Paste it in Calculator and divide it by making use of 2048 to get it in GB. If its displayed in mb divide it by making use of 1024 to get it in GB. wish you Understood