Spec Me a Traffic Monitor

wolfie138 · 28 Aug 2018 at 13:42

Is there such a thing that will give you a simple readable/understandable breakdown of what's using your bandwidth? i know Win10 has the resource monitor thing but i couldn't really make sense of what it's showing me ~ loads of SVCHOST things that didn't make anything clearer, eg.

TIA

bremen1874 · 28 Aug 2018 at 13:45

To run on and monitor a single device?

andicole0 · 28 Aug 2018 at 13:50

I was going to say Google Maps but that wasn't right.
I'd be interested in something that analyses data traffic, not sure how complicated it might be though.
Andi.

Steveocee · 28 Aug 2018 at 14:38

Ubiquiti Unifi USG to replace your main router? Has pretty good DPI and will break down per device.

hyperseven · 28 Aug 2018 at 15:00

I use Glasswire on my windows machines, has handy firewall too.

Sp00n · 28 Aug 2018 at 16:26

Free version (monitoring only) of netbalancer should do what you need I think: https://netbalancer.com/download

It may fall foul of the same issues with svchost though.

RSR · 28 Aug 2018 at 17:37

Grafana is very good for this depending on how granular you want to be.

Cacti is also another one which id look at.

bledd · 28 Aug 2018 at 17:40

Process Explorer is pretty good for a live monitor.

Svchost is windows services, likely Windows update.

zipp0r · 28 Aug 2018 at 21:05

netlimiter might be what you're after

nox_uk · 16 Oct 2018 at 09:23

Steveocee said:
Ubiquiti Unifi USG to replace your main router? Has pretty good DPI and will break down per device.

i've got one of those and it's great for telling you what device is bandwidth consuming and what type of data it is, but i've not yet found out if it will break it down further.

What it did tell me is one of the comupters in the house has uploaded 5GB of http traffic in about 6 weeks, so it's narrowed down my search a lot. Will hit that PC with one of the above tools tomorrow and see what it reports. Thinking Glasswire or Netlimiter at the moment...