How can I monitor the bandwidth usage on our home network
I share a cable internet connection with my roommates, one of whom always leaves large bittorrent downloads on during the day on his laptop, thus slowing our connection to a crawl. Is there a software tool I could use to check how much bandwidth anyone connected to the network is using? The account is in my name and thus I have access to whatever root/administrator level privileges are available both on Comcast account and on the router.
thanks in advance.
There is no easy way of doing this without setting up a server, what you could do is enable SNMP on the comcast router and then use something like cacti or another SMMP grapher solution and monitor usage per IP.
Or you could enable SNMP on all clients/XPs and monitor usage as well.