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network traffic viewer

Asked by Ben Sykes

Hi, I'm running a small network of 4 pc's through a router and wondered if anyone knew of a program that could monitor how much bandwith each computer is using. I've had a good search though network section in synaptic but couldn't see anything which did this so if anyone has any ideas they'd be very much appreciated.

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Ben

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Best zzzxxx (michalski-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

to be able to monitor that, you would have to have a central location which all information flows through, the router is the obvious choice if it supports the tracking of bandwidth, other wise, you could chose a computer to be a gateway, so all computer sned info to the router, then that computer, and then that computer send it to the router out to the internet.

this would mke it very very slow on your network at times, i would recommend going to each computer one by one and writing down the bandwidth for each computer, its slow, its anoying, but its your best option. if you want to track exactly whats passing from one computer to the internet, network, ect... you can use Wireshark, this tracks everything packet by packet, and keeps a count

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Ben Sykes (bensykes55) said : 		#2

Thanks Brian Michalski, that solved my question.