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I just want to figure out which wireless client is sucking my bandwidth (it's slowing down my Starcraft games :-/).
I have a Linksys WRT54G router (Linux version). For firmware, I'm currently using Tomato but I'm willing to consider a different firmware. Anyone have recommendations?
PS: I'm aware of Bandwidth graphs in Tomato. However, it is not granular enough to give me an idea of how much bandwidth each device is using
As you look for tools, remember that you're looking for who's using the most airtime, not who has the most throughput. A client getting 500kbps of throughput using the 1mbps data rate is hogging much more airtime than a client getting 5mbps of throughput using the 54mbps data rate. – Spiff – 2010-12-01T03:28:54.207
Have you looked at ddwrt? If I remember correctly you could actually see each clients bandwidth usage in it. – Unfundednut – 2010-12-01T04:16:44.963
I tried ddwrt in the past but didn't see this feature. I'll look into it again. – Belmin Fernandez – 2010-12-01T04:19:27.750
2Only the paid version of DD-WRT has granular bandwidth monitoring. All the free versions just show graphs on current usage for the WAN, LAN, and Wireless network interfaces. – Force Flow – 2010-12-06T06:09:22.973
@Force can you submit that as an answer please? I'm hoping for a free solution but, if nobody else gives any other suggestions, I'll choose yours. – Belmin Fernandez – 2010-12-06T06:23:52.303