Total Network Bandwidth Usage tool ?

[Gimli]

SO - ISP's are junk. That said ( and most likely agreed by all that they are scum sucking leechs that change TOS's on a whim to make more money and gouge consumers ((im not bitter))

I have a network @ home - wireless - and wired, about 5-10 network nodes give or take on a given day. I need a tool that will monitor WAN activity - but ignore ( or separate LAN activity ) for the whole shabang.

Essentially I need to figure out my bandwidth usage for a month as the ISP is going to start charging overages. But their measurement tool sucks and is not accurate in the least

Anyone have any suggestions / ideas?

Edited February 12, 2008 by Gimli

[Zxian]

NetLimiter can do this for you. I'm not sure if the free version supports this, but the pro edition does.

[PC_LOAD_LETTER]

http://www.dumeter.com/ can do that i think. you might also look into a custom firmware for your router/access point. http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato on my WRT54g will let me save bandwidth logs which i could probably split into wired/wireless if i had to (it has daily/weekly logs but they are for all PCs)

[DonDamm]

Actually, while I like DUMeter, I found that it doesn't allow exceptions based on IP address like others do. You can specify a NIC to monitor and that's fine if you use two different ones for WAN and LAN. However, if like many you just connect to a router through only one NIC then you'll need another solution.

I'm currently using BWMeter v3.3.3 available from http://www.desksoft.com which very neatly displays Internet activity and LAN activity separately as well as daily, weekly, and monthly totals.

NetLimiter will also work, and has other functions as well.

Edited February 13, 2008 by DonDamm