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I would like to know the total bandwidth our internet provider essentially provides to the many competing devices in our home. Is there a simple windows service that uses a wireshark like trick to log total bandwidth usage over time of all devices on a single machine (and maybe, as a perk, also breaks it down by device)? Wireshark per se isn't what I am after as it logs all packets and I just want total bandwidth which takes far less log space. Also wireshark requires restarting on each boot, and I would like this just accumulated over time.
My impression is that even when a low pressure synchronization is taking place over a long time our ISP is throttling us (i.e. streaming video becomes almost non functional if skydrive has been running its slowly syncing of data over a long time, or if a very slow but very long download is taking place), but I would like to verify this and with a lot of devices running here and there it is hard to confirm without real logging.
you might be able to do this at your router, so including that information may help - I'm wondering if something like rflow might be the answer – Journeyman Geek – 2014-01-31T05:13:01.907