How can I monitor my network activity? Experiencing unusually high traffic...

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UberTiger

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There's something fishy going on with my network activity and it's adversely affecting my work as I try to send largish files over the network to my printer and messing up my workflow. A few hundred megs per file max, maybe a few per hour.


According to my router, as of 12 hours ago it had been on for 35 days, downloaded 226GB and uploaded 12.8GB session data in that time.

By midnight the download figure had gone up to 304GB and this morning it's at 33GB.

No one in the house has been torrenting and I think it's messing with my work. Youtube and netflix maybe, but I can't imagine it's enough to make it increase so much so fast in comparison to the last 35 days. I'm concerned there may be something unerlying going on, perhaps a virus?

Can anyone please advise l might be able to monitor this?

I have a Virgin super hub, thanks
 
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How many machines do you share with?

Check the network status for each one to see where the data is going to/from
 
These are taken from the super hub page when you login to the router on 192.168.0.1

6.38pm yesteday - 226GB
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11.30pm yesterday - 292GB
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11.48pm yesterday - 304GB
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9.16am this morning - 333GB
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10.13am this morning - 345GB
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The thing is, the only reason why I even started to monitor it in the first place is because our neighbor came to us and requested to use our internet. I don't know them well, but they seem like nice chaps, I've met them a few times and they taken post deliveries for us a few times.

They were in a pickle because they apparently hit their 30gb cap and couldn't use their net. They're supposed to be moving out after Christmas and so rather than sign up to a better plan they asked if they could use ours so he can still use email an apply for jobs. I hesitantly agreed on the terms they use nothing bandwidth heavy like torrenting or streaming video and they seemed to understand that (they're Spanish with reasonable, but not incredible English). They seemed happy with this and even brought a load of nice Spanish food around as a thanks.

This was at 6.38pm when I tooked the first recording. Come 11.30pm I see the increase with respect to how much we've used over a month and I'm furious, I check again at 11.48p and then change the wifi password to revoke access. The only thing that even spurred me to look was I was having trouble with my prints. When there's high network activity in the past (ie. my housemate is streaming video sometimes) I think it doesn't spool properly or the delivery gets interrupted between my pc, the router and the printer. If the file delivery fails it will restarts resulting in duplicate prints, very frustrating. I'm not sure if this is party due not having a great router?

So I change the wifi password to revoke their access and continue to work until 2am and begin again this morning - to my surprise a large amount more bandwidth had been used! Which lead me to believe that perhaps there's an issue with my computer using badwidth now as it seems to be going up a rate faster than expected?

Now I'm thinking it might be a good idea to see if I can get a program to monitor either the entire network usuage or just the usage from my computer across the network to see what's up.

I'm on Windows 7.
 
There myself with a desktop, my two housemates with laptops. We all have our phones, and then a wifi printer. I then have another large printer on the network connected directly to the router.
 
KIA said:
The superhub traffic log isn't accurate.
Click to expand...

^ This post is 100% accurate. OP, I wouldn't worry about the nice Spanish neighbours.

Here's one for you... Logically, if they cant get a traffic monitor right, how "right" can we expect the firewall to be?
 
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Thanks for your replies guys, just having a chance to look at this again whilst not under pressure.

The super hub log seems completely fubared, every time I refresh the superhub activity summary page it jumps up by about 4GB. I reset it and managed to get it to register 50GB of download data in the time it took me to write this post :-/

Oh well, I've given them access again and will see how it goes. Will monitor the network activity of my PC from the networking tab of the task manager to see if anything interesting pops up
 
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