A way to monitor bandwith usage of wireles home network (Virgin)

GlasgowTitan · 11 Mar 2010 at 09:59

Hey folks I'd like to know if there's a program that I can use to monitor what bandwidth my internet is using up so I can figure out if Virgin is capping me at certain times. I have used NetMeter but that only registers the pc that its installed on and not the whole network - I have a my GF's laptop and the xbox on the network wirelessly. Is this even possible?

Also do you know what the limits are on Virgin Media's 20meg service for capping, had a look on their website but maybe I'm not looking hard enough lol.

Cheers

Sp00n · 11 Mar 2010 at 10:56

You will have to have a gateway/proxy which has monitoring built in, for that you could use a variety of linux solutions which are free but require a spare pc with a couple of network cards in it.

JimAroo · 11 Mar 2010 at 13:11

Easiest way would be to get a Linksys WRT54GL and slap tomato on that mofo.

anything I don't mind · 11 Mar 2010 at 13:15

http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato

bledd · 11 Mar 2010 at 13:22

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html

if it's just your 360, laptop and pc, I wouldn't bother getting a new router just for that

GlasgowTitan · 11 Mar 2010 at 13:38

Funny enough I'm actually using a WRT54GL for the house so will try the tomato malarky!

I have never really messed about with routers and software before but is it easy to install this tomato firmware and will I just need to input my network name and passcode again?

cheers

PistolPete · 11 Mar 2010 at 15:53

GlasgowTitan said:
Funny enough I'm actually using a WRT54GL for the house so will try the tomato malarky!

I have never really messed about with routers and software before but is it easy to install this tomato firmware and will I just need to input my network name and passcode again?

cheers

If you mean for the wireless, then yes. Tomato comes with a default config which you edit in the nice GUI.