One of the features included with most newer wireless routers is bandwidth usage monitoring. A bandwidth monitor lets you keep track of exactly how much data is uploaded and downloaded through your ...

[Kurt] likes to know what’s going on with his network. He already uses bandwidth checking software on his DD-WRT capable router, but he wanted a second opinion. So he built his own network monitor.

Joining a slew of management vendors, AdventNet last week announced it would launch a NetFlow-based bandwidth-monitoring tool to help network administrators identify application traffic on their nets ...

I have a 1700 series Cisco router and a 512K bit/sec leased line. About 50 users are accessing the Internet through that router, and I want to monitor my bandwidth consumption through the router. Is ...

I'm having some issues with my current internet connection and the ISP techs are unable to find a problem. For the last three nights for about a 3 hour period, I get very sporadic access to the ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

Every Android app that accesses a mobile or Wi-Fi network uses bandwidth. If you have a limited data plan, or you are simply curious, free apps will show you the total amount of bandwidth used.

While Activity Monitor will show you process stats, it does not give you information on which programs may be using your network bandwidth. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

For those Mac users who love to push their hardware to its limits, the OS X Activity Monitor (found in Applications > Utilities) can be a handy tool. I often use it to find out if one process or ...