Network Monitoring

[iistapp]

So I just moved in with my girlfriend, and well.. She doesn't have a clue about networking or torrenting (actually she doesn't have a clue about computers tbh).

Here is a simple scenario:
I'm playing some games online when I'm taking a break, I tell her to turn off her torrents so I don't get a major amount of lag.

She turns off one torrent, and asks if that helped.

It did. So I start playing.. - 5 minutes later I get such major lag that I disconnect.

So I ask if she turned on her downloads again, and she said no.
Obviously she didn't because she wouldn't lie, so I check her torrent program, and heey! She got 5 more torrent running, but did turn off one. (See, girls never lie)

TLDR: She turned off one torrent and it was fine for 5 minutes, but once the other ones started to connect to other peers the download went to max speed on the other ones and I got fucked.


So, if you are like me and skip all the text and only read the last part of posts, hi to you!
I'm in need of a network monitoring tool. Yes I tried google, but could only find a bunch of not too trustworthy pay to get tools, and couldn't really find any good torrents with a decent tool either.

Anyone got some suggestions?

What I'm looking for is a tool that monitors network usage on different computers, from my own.

[DegreesKelvin]

Wireshark is a nice network monitoring tool available for windows. I don't use it myself a lot (I'm still a beginner) but heard good things about it.
I however don't get how a network monitoring will help you solve this problem. I think using download limits build into many torrent applications might solve the problem and explain to her whats the problem and how she can help not causing too much lag.

[iistapp]

Wireshark is a nice network monitoring tool available for windows. I don't use it myself a lot (I'm still a beginner) but heard good things about it.
I however don't get how a network monitoring will help you solve this problem. I think using download limits build into many torrent applications might solve the problem and explain to her whats the problem and how she can help not causing too much lag.

Cheers, thought it was only for linux, and can't bother making a usb-boot device at the moment.

The thing is, it doesn't help to explain, trust me, I have tried..

The point is that, if she say she have turned off her torrents, I can still see if she still is using a huge amount of bandwidth from her computer, as she got a bunch of shit.. (frostwire, µtorrent, bitcomet and a shit load of other torrent programs a like running at the same time)

[Acidiferous]

If you have access to her pc, and if it's your girlfriends pc that shouldent be a problem, you can try tcpview from sysinternals (MS©). It gives a better picture of what programs/processes is feeding of your connection.

Wireshark is a great tool for a lot of tasks, and I guess you can make some smart filters, but tcpview gives a simple and more clear overview. At least I think so

You can download it here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437

[DegreesKelvin]

Wireshark is a nice network monitoring tool available for windows. I don't use it myself a lot (I'm still a beginner) but heard good things about it.
I however don't get how a network monitoring will help you solve this problem. I think using download limits build into many torrent applications might solve the problem and explain to her whats the problem and how she can help not causing too much lag.

Cheers, thought it was only for linux, and can't bother making a usb-boot device at the moment.

The thing is, it doesn't help to explain, trust me, I have tried..

The point is that, if she say she have turned off her torrents, I can still see if she still is using a huge amount of bandwidth from her computer, as she got a bunch of shit.. (frostwire, µtorrent, bitcomet and a shit load of other torrent programs a like running at the same time)

Wireshark only for linux? I think you have to look again on their site.
You know that network monitoring will do nothing about the torrent downloading rigth?

[LoGiCaL__]

If you learned command line you wouldn't have to ask that. Recon Recon Recon. It can't be stressed enough.

[iistapp]

Wireshark only for linux? I think you have to look again on their site.
You know that network monitoring will do nothing about the torrent downloading rigth?

I didn't, I just remembered the name from the tools page on HTS, from some time back - therefor I believed it was for Linux only, but I guess i remembered wrong.

Forget about the torrents, I just need to be able to watch the bandwidth of a computer.

Which I hope I can do with the use of Wireshark? I haven't had the time to check it out yet, or even read up about it, I just know it's a network tool, that's pretty much it.

If you learned command line you wouldn't have to ask that. Recon Recon Recon. It can't be stressed enough.

Would that be a command for the command line in Linux?

[amp1776]

Better solution: look into tomato firmware for your router. then you can control what connections get how much bandwidth and when, if you work it right.

[iistapp]

Better solution: look into tomato firmware for your router. then you can control what connections get how much bandwidth and when, if you work it right.

I remember my brother used NetLimiter on my computer back in the days, but that had to be installed, and I could easily disable it, and raise my bandwidth if I needed it. Is that still the same, or can you use it from one computer to limit the whole network?

Problem is, it's not my router, as we are me and my gf, and two elder people living over us, but they hardly use their computer, so it doesn't matter that much tbh. But still, if I fuck it up, and loose connection to is I'm screwed, as I can't connect hardwired, only wireless.

Still, I'll read into it, sounds interesting, is it supported by most routers nowadays?

[amp1776]

well, the Tomato page says broadcom based routers.

I'v never used it myself, dd-wrt yes. turn a 50 linksys into a 500 super router as the sites say.

BTW; that would be my sales pitch if I thought I had any chance of being allowed to upgrade the router, ( if its compatable )

OR, just get another, and upgrade it for temp use where your at?