Hi all,
Does anyone know of any bandwidth monitoring software for a LANs? I have seen utilities for gateway servers, but I need a utility that I can use from my PC (one of the nodes on the LAN). Even some sort of traffic monitor would probably suffice for what I'm after, but I haven't been able to find anything suitable.

Cheers,
Hoopa

as far as i remember dumeter can do that. but have you tried the built in function in vista computermanagement

or the taskmanger in xp?

I don't think there is any piece of freeware that does what you want.
There is however NetLimiter (http://www.netlimiter.com/) but it's for a single PC, not for a LAN.

have a look at what I obtained with the asta shoutbox :
http://www.astahost.com/index.php?act=Sear...lite=%2Bsniffer
and more precisely at this topic : http://www.astahost.com/index.php?showtopi...&hl=sniffer
Regards
Yordan

The way I do it is to turn SNMP services on my router on and point MRTG at it. Granted, the MRTG stuff runs on the router, but you could conceivably run it from another machine as long as your SNMP daemon allows connections from other machines to read the necessary OIDs to get the byte counts.

Maybe something like this ?
http://www.wildpackets.com/rtna_video

I forgot to add that your cable modem or dsl modem might expose the necessary SNMP OIDs to look at byte counts, which you could plug into MRTG.

Hi all,

Thanks for the numerous responses. From looking at the problem again it seems that the most logical place for this to sit would be the router itself, but I'm not exactly a network specialist so a solution may not get that advanced. I tried ethereal, but couldn't even get the exe to open as it was corrupt, and they had taken down the other mirror sites. I will give the wildpackets demo a try when I get a moment and see if I have any better luck with that one

Cheers,
Hoopa

If you're trying to monitor just your own pc, then you can try bitmeter2. It's quite good and useful, at least for me. If you want to monitor overall network bandwidth, you'll need a "managed" router or "managed" switch. These are intelligent router or switch where you can control and monitor bandwidth allocation and usage. No doubt, with these powerful features, it comes at a higher cost.

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