find out how much people are using the internet on a router from a pc?

unwashed potato! · 4 Jun 2008 at 00:02

i'm wondering if there is anything i can get that will allow me to view how much each computer is downloading and uploading on a network? i am in a house of 7 connections, of which atm at least 4 are used. most of time this doesn't affect me browsing speeds of playing online, but sometimes it will, even out of cap hours, and i always feel it's because someone is downloading something, but when asked everyone says no, which i suspect is because they downloading porno and don't want to admit it. trouble is i want to find out if someone is using the net heavily, and find out which computer is doing it. this would also then help with virgins new capping as the 3gb can go fast in a big house and if someone just thinks of its only one film i'll keep quiet so no one knows just in case, but then so does everyone else do the same then it's quick to go and would be good to see who it was and not just suspect

preferably id like to just download some software and install it on my pc so i can watch and see from my room if it bad rather then having to go into a room where people are using the net and it could be them being selfish but not wanting anyone to know

tolien · 4 Jun 2008 at 00:14

Not without either having a router that exposes that data or installing something on their machines.

j20gu3 · 4 Jun 2008 at 00:45

Packet sniff the gateway.
Check the MAC/Internal Subnet IP of the computer against the amount of packets being sent and received.

mynsa · 4 Jun 2008 at 07:41

you could try monitoring software, something like ntop to be installed on the router, depending on what router it is.

http://www.ntop.org/