Tracking/monitoring bandwidth/usage

Scattered through our house we have six Macs all using our wireless network. Every month we are running uo against or exceeding our alloted usage of 60GB. I'm almost 100 percent sure that my youngest is the largest user of bandwidth, but I want to understand (and be able to explain to him) what it is that he is doing that is driving the usage stats so high and thus have him curb the behaviour that is pushing us over. So what I am trying to find is an app that will allow me to monitor usage on each of my machines down to a granular level - application and website would be great. Does any such tool exist?
Thanks

You might want to check out Open DNS. Not only will it track usage by user or computer, you will be able to see (and block) any websites that you do not want others to visit.
Contact Open DNS for more details:
http://www.opendns.com/landings/familyshield

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Dear Folkz,
Is there any open source tool to monitor bandwidth on a switch port and take reports.?
plz help me!!

I think Open NMS (http://www.opennms.org/) and Cacti (http://www.cacti.net/) is one of the most used and best as per your requirements.

Monitoring Bandwidth usage for individual hosted sites on osx server?

Does anyone know of a good way to monitor bandwidth consumption for individual websites hosted on osx server?

Part of this answer depends on server configuration details that you haven't provided.
Are you looking for 'bandwidth' as in total bytes transferred for any given site? or are you looking for a megabits-per-second network throughput calculation?
Are your various sites logging to separate log files? or a single, unified log file?
If you want a total bytes transferred calculation, then that data is stored in the standard log files, so a simple parser that adds up the response sizes would suffice - it will tell you that x number of bytes/megabytes were transferred.
A bandwitch utilization graph (e.g. mbps) is a little trickier, though.
Are your sites running on the same port, using name-based virtual hosting to separate the traffic, or are they running on different ports?
If different ports then you may be able to implement some kind of network monitoring, but if they're all running on the same port (e.g. 80) then that doesn't work - you're down to Apache logging.
The standard Apache logs, though, don't include enough data to calculate a bandwidth graph. It does include timestamps of requests, and the total bytes in the reply, but that's not enough - the timestamp is only accurate to the second, and there's no indication of duration... for example, a 1mb web page served in 1 second equates to 8mbps, but that same file transferred in 30 seconds is only about 273kbps.
Since the transfer time is required to calculate the bandwidth utilization for the site, you'll need to amend your logging to include the transfer size. You'll need to enable mod_logio and add the %O (output bytes) and %T (request time) variables to your log format. Only then can you calculate the bits-per-second throughput of your site.

Can I monitor bandwidth usage?

Hi
I have an Airport Express being used by two PC's and a Mac; I'm using a PC whilst my Macbook is repaired. But the internet gets really slow and I suspect someone (not me, one of the other two) is most likely downloading in extreme amounts. Is there an application of such that will allow me to see who's using the most bandwidth?

I run vnstat on my router and have it update the figures every 5 minutes. I don't know if it's very accurate since I get 3 different numbers for my interfaces:
rx / tx / total / estimated
eth0:
yesterday 832.96 MB / 2,325 MB / 3,158 MB
today 864.36 MB / 1,363 MB / 2,227 MB / 2,928 MB
eth1:
yesterday 2,371 MB / 862.99 MB / 3,234 MB
today 1,396 MB / 885.23 MB / 2,282 MB / 2,998 MB
ppp0:
yesterday 3,011 MB / 3,724 MB / 6,735 MB
today 1,311 MB / 787.56 MB / 2,099 MB / 2,758 MB
Unfortunately (more like OMFG YES IT'S GOD'S GIFT!!!!) my ISP's traffic monitor is totally screwed up so I have no way of comparing these numbers.
I don't think it eats up a lot of resources tho, so you could run it together with other apps.

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Now that Comcast is placing a limit on bandwidth use, I would like to know if there is a way to monitor bandwidth usage on the ATV. Comcast advised that you can download software onto computers that monitor bandwidth usage. However, I'm not sure if this would work on ATV.
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In some cases the interface with your router will allow you to reset your up and down data count, you could possibly monitor your usage that way.

Monitor Monthly Bandwidth Usage

I feel like I am trying to find a needle in a haystack.
My broadband internet provider has recently announced strict bandwidth caps on all of their accounts whereas it was pretty lax up until now, and since I know that more and more ISP's in North America are going with this model I was wondering what everyone is using to keep track of their usage?
I'm wondering if anyone knows of a utility that maybe sits in the menubar or whatever that can monitor inbound and outbound traffic over wired or wireless connections that can differentiate between local network traffic and the cable modem traffic..?
Any options are welcomed.

I have the same need which I assume is growing for many and thus done some research in this area. Apparently, applications such as NetUse and iNet Network have been able to measure total internet usage on the Airport Extreme, until recently.
Unfortunately, 6.x Airport firmware updates have eliminated something called SNMP Monitoring which has undermined the ability for these apps to measure the traffic. Very frustrating!
To my knowledge, SurplusMeter only tracks internet usage on one computer which is of limited use in a multi-device environment.

How can i calculate the bandwidth usage of my Azure subscription?

Hi,
I know currently there is no API which provide bandwidth usage details. Is there any other way to find out my subscription's bandwidth usage?
Thank you!

Hi,
Please have a look at below thread.
#http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4590682/how-to-measure-windows-azure-bandwidth-usage-programmatically
Here is a snippet.
The Azure SDK doesn't provide any billing or consumption information programatically. As lgorek stated, you can approximate usage with IIS And WCF performance counters.And you'll also be able to use your own logging to track traffic from different users.
However, you won't be able to track bandwidth consumed when users download content from blob storage. Well, you could, but only if all of your blobs were private and you streamed their content through your web application instead of direct links on your web
pages .
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WRT160N Bandwidth usage

Does this router monitor or meter bandwidth usage? Using Vista Home Premium OS, two other computers with WMP54GS and WMP54G PCI adapters and a PSP.
Can it be configured to monitor or meter usage? Can I see the actual usage in real time?
Question 2: (I can ask this elsewhere if you want) Is there a way to extend the antenna on WRT54G & S adapters since they tend to become shielded by the computer case itself?
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No Linksys router do not monitor band width.nor they can be coinfigured to do so. You can use high gain antennas for the adapters.

What is the actual bandwidth usage?

When I use Adobe Connect I am online and broadcasting for about 4 hours a day, for 10 days at a time. I only do screen sharing and voice -- no video.
I have DSL Internet. The DSL upload speeds are very poor (under 1Mb). To speed things up, I thought I'd look into getting a 4G hotspot, but I'm worried about actual bandwidth usage, since such plans have a practical limit of 5 or 10Gb per month.
My off-hand guess is that If I were to watch a video of myself, I guess it would be a couple of gigs for a four hour, non-HD video. So by that very rough guestimate, I'd hit 20Gb pretty easily over the 40 hours of my meeting. Is that right the way to think about it?
Has anyone monitored actual consumed bandwidth for a simple meeting of one person talking and sharing his screen? I'm not looking for definitive answers -- just some ballpark estimate of what such a meeting consumes each hour...
Thanks! :-)

Page 22 of this document will give you some numbers that will allow you to estimate the total data used for a meeting. Keep in mind these numbers are what Adobe saw as average consumption, yours may be higher or lower.
http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/products/adobeconnect/pdfs/web-conferencing/Adob e-Connect-9-Technical-Guide.pdf

High bandwidth usage while inactive

Twice today I've glanced at Activity Monitor's Dock icon, which I have set to view Network Usage, and saw a large amount of data streaming continuously through my internet connection.
This morning when I noticed it for the first time, I poked around my system, and after not seeing any other programs (Safari, Software Update, etc.) being active, I tried quitting Messages Beta - and the bandwidth instantly dropped down to nothing. At that time, it was moving around 60KB/sec upstream, and probably around half that downstream according to Activity Monitor.
A few minutes ago this evening, I saw it happen again - my Activity Monitor was showing heavy continuous bandwidth usage. This time I simply set my status to 'Offline' in Messages Beta and once again it instantly dropped down to nothing. This time the bandwidth was closer to 160kb/sec upstream, and half that downstream! When I changed my status back to 'Available' a few seconds later, everything continued on normally, with almost no data usage.
I had no active chats going, never used video, screen or file sharing - so what in the world is Messages Beta doing with so much data streaming? I'm quite mystified, and wondering if anybody else has seen this happen....

The issue seemed to be local network traffic.

FF resolution settings to lower bandwidth usage

Which versions of FF will do this and what specific settings are there to lower bandwidth usage?
Also, will the FF settings override settings on websites such as youtube? For example, if my kids were to click on higher resolution or HD video settings for their youtube videos, what would happen?

Changing the resolution doesn't have any effect on the Firefox performance and may even look worse if you operate an LDC monitor not in its native resolution.
You can block content if you ant to improve performance on a low bandwidth connection.
You can look at Adblock Plus.
* Adblock Plus: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/
You need to subscribe to a Filter list (e.g. the EasyList).
* http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions
* http://adblockplus.org/en/getting_started

Is there an app for monitoring CELLPHONE usage? (Not data, calls, SMS, etc.)

Hey! Is there an app for monitoring CELLPHONE usage? (Not data, calls, SMS, etc.). I know there's for data, but I wanna know if there's one that keeps track of calls, SMS, etc.
Thanks!

Unless O2 has an app available via the iTunes app store that provides for this as AT&T does for the iPhone sold in the U.S., I don't believe so.
The iPhone includes a usage indicator for Call Time and Cellular Network Data usage, which can be reset on a monthly basis based on your billing cycle, but there is no usage indicator for the number of messages sent or received.

Ipqos to monitor bandwidth utilization in zones?

I'd like to use IPQos and the extended accounting features in the global zone to monitor bandwidth utilization in my zones - ie, keep a simple count of amount of traffic each zone's IPs use.
I can't quite figure out how to do it, though. The IPQos docs are extensive, but complex.
Anyone got a simple 'howto' for it??

not really using ipqos, but i have a dtrace script that tracks socket traffic per pid and uid, you can probably change it to meet your needs.
#!/usr/sbin/dtrace -Cs
/* like top but tracks pid's network transfers */
/* By James Dickens [email protected] */
#pragma D option quiet
#include<sys/uio.h>
int DR; /* Data READ */
int DW; /* Data WROTE */
int DRL; /* Data Read in the last second */
int DWL; /* Data Wrote in the last second */
int new_data; /* set when there is new data to print */
dtrace:::BEGIN { printf("Waiting for data...\n"); }
fbt:sockfs:socktpi_write:entry
self->registry=1;
self->uiop = (struct uio *) arg1;
self->request = self->uiop->uio_resid; /* MAX amount of data to send *
fbt:sockfs:socktpi_read:entry
self->registry=1;
self->uiop = (struct uio *) arg1;
self->request = self->uiop->uio_resid; /* MAX amount of data to recieve
fbt:sockfs:socktpi_read:return
/arg0 != 0 && self->registry/ /* don't grab data if an error was returned. */
size = self->request - self->uiop->uio_resid; /* update the data read *
DR +=size;
DRL += size;
@data[uid,pid, "rcv'd" ] = sum(size);
@datac[uid,pid,"rcv'd" ] = sum(size);
self->request=0;
self->registry=0;
self->uiop=0;
new_data=1 ;
fbt:sockfs:socktpi_write:return
/arg0 != 0 && self->registry / /* don't grab data if an error was returned. */
size = self->request - self->uiop->uio_resid ; /* update amount of data
sent */
DW += size;
DWL += size;
@data[uid, pid, "sent" ]= sum(size);
@datac[uid,pid,"sent" ] = sum(size);
self->request=0;
self->registery=0;
self->uiop=0;
new_data=1;
tick-1s
/new_data /
new_data=0;
printf("\nwalltime : %Y\nStats for the active last Second\nUID\tPID\tdi
retion\tBytes\n", walltimestamp);
printa("%d\t%d\t%8s\t%@d\n",@data);
printf("Totals for this second\nData Rcv'd ==%d Data Sent == %d TOTAL %d
\n",
DRL, DWL, DRL+DWL);
printf("TOTALS\nData Rcv'd == %d Data Sent ==%d Total TRANSFERRED == %d\
n",
DR , DW, DR + DW) ;
trunc(@data,0);
DRL=0; DWL=0;
dtrace:::END {
printf("\nGrand Totals\n");
printf("UID\tPID\tdiretion\tBytes\n");
printa("%d\t%d\t%8s\t%@d\t\n",@datac);
printf("TOTALS\n");
printf("Data Rcv'd == %d Data Sent ==%d TOTAL TRANSFERRED == %d", DR , D
W, DR + DW) ;
}

Thinking of purchasing EA6500. Can it monitor bandwidth use by device

I'm thinking of purchasing a Cisco Linksys EA6500. I need a router that can one monitor bandwidth used by device. Keep exceeding our ISP's network bandwidth allocation, need to identify the devices that are causing this high usage and be able to do so from the router. Does the EA6500's standard software support this, is their router software one can obtain for the unit that does this or is there another home router option that can perform this function? Stephen, Madeisky

If I were in your shoes, I would find a router that supported it. Linksys routers aren't designed and marketed for stuff like that.
As was previously said, netgear routers are the only ones that I'm aware of that do that. But there could be others.
Check here:
Www.smallnetbuilder.com

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