In the face of internet service providers like Comcast instituting bandwidth-capping, the Simple Help weblog details how to use a router running the open-source DD-WRT firmware to monitor your ...

If you haven't heard of "Internet throttling" by now, you will soon in all likelihood. Major cable-based ISPs are considering (if not implementing) hard bandwidth caps on their users each month, which ...

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 ...

When I was a CIO for a chain of hospitals, I often found that one of the toughest parts of my job was purchasing. It wasn't that I had a hard time picking out products or services. The problem was ...

Windows only: Bandwidth monitor NetWorx is packed with tools to help you keep on top of what's happening on your network. As shown above, Networx offers network Statistics, Incoming Traffic, and Speed ...

Monitoring Internet traffic takes on many forms. From capturing every packet of data to seeing a list of accessed websites, numerous programs enable you to view what happens between your network and ...

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 ...

Based on RRDTool, Cacti is "a complete network graphing solution." That means that Cacti polls your devices, gathers the data, then provides graphs based on what you configured. Cacti is a free open ...

I don’t know about you, but I grew up in the sensitive times of ADSL. Being a gamer, sometimes I had to jump up from my computer and scold my family members for hogging the lion’s share of our 384kbps ...

Firmware is the low-level software programmed into a device's read-only memory, responsible for controlling its hardware functions. In the context of routers and networking equipment, firmware ...