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How do you determine the overall bandwidth usage for each computer connected to a wireless network?
I manage a small wireless network consisting of a couple of cheap Cisco/Linksys wifi routers. Unfortunately, these routers seem to have little built-in logging ability, and no way to tell which clients are using a lot of bandwidth. This is a problem because several dozen people use the wireless, and occasionally the network speed will get extremely slow (ping google.com
takes several seconds/minutes).
I'm suspecting someone's downloading movies/torrents, which I wouldn't mind so much, but it's interfering with other people doing their jobs. I've already manually caught a couple interns downloading torrents, but I want to be more pro-active about it, and walking around the office to see what everyone's doing isn't practical.
Is there any way for a computer connected to a wireless network to monitor usage associated with MAC/IP addresses? I've looked into software like Wireshark, but it seems insanely complex to configure it to monitor any usage other than your own.
I don't care what sites people are going to, only the overall amount of bandwidth they're using. What's the easiest way to find this out?
Heh, the Linksys's admin interface informs me that 1024-65534 is an invalid UDP range... – Cerin – 2012-08-30T16:37:39.180
it would probably be best to listen more closely to the other guy. – Justin Becker – 2012-09-05T20:13:30.270