Net Monitoring a Wireless Network

Bony Maloney · 6 Jan 2007 at 23:55

Any software out there that will monitor my wireless network. Specifically Xbox 360 downloads. I have tried Netlimiter Lite and DU Meter, both will not monitor my Xbox net activity even when set to monitor all traffic.

norm · 7 Jan 2007 at 05:28

Monitor what exactly?

Ethereal will capture all and any packets to and from the 360 if that's what you're interested in.

Bony Maloney · 7 Jan 2007 at 10:56

norm said:
Monitor what exactly?

Ethereal will capture all and any packets to and from the 360 if that's what you're interested in.

Total downloads in GB's. DU Meter and Netlimiter record my download/upload traffic totals in GB's from the net to my main computer, but cannot seem to log the traffic to my Xbox. Will check Ethereal out. Thanks.

Solari · 7 Jan 2007 at 12:54

If your router supports SNMP then it might be able to be monitored via SolarWinds or MRTG or something similar.

I'm not sure how these routers represent wireless connections... as virtual subinterfaces or something else... may be an ip-accounting style table of traffic vs IP?

tolien · 8 Jan 2007 at 00:22

Unless your router gives you the data, or you connect the Xbox via your PC, there's not much you can do.

To use Ethereal you'd need a wireless card in the PC, and drivers to put it in promiscuous mode, or it wouldn't count anything the xbox sent or received (and packet sniffing with Ethereal to work out how much data you're transferring is using a nuke to crack a nut, but that's an aside).

Bony Maloney · 8 Jan 2007 at 09:32

Thanks