How to monitor internet bandwidth usage on network?
In today's internet, video downloading, p2p programs, or online IPTV programs can easily consume most of your internet bandwidth. To make your internet access more efficient, it is important for you to monitor internet bandwidth of each computers on your network. And certain protocols shall be blocked during working hours.
This tutorial will guide you in installing, setting up and using "WFilter Enterprise" to monitor your Internet bandwidth (uploading and downloading).
1. Setup a SPAN port for monitoring.
Generally speaking, a computer connected to a switch or a router can only receive its own traffic. To monitor other computers, your computer shall be able to see other computer's network traffic. "Port mirroring", a feature of switch, allows you to setup a "monitoring port" in the switch to receive packets of other ports.
First, you need to setup a SPAN port in your switch. To monitor other computers, the computer with WFilter installed in shall be connected to the SPAN port.
2. Real-time bandwidth monitoring.
Upon properly deployed, you will be able to monitor internet activity and all internet connections of all computers.
The "Online Computers" of WFilter shows a list of online computers.
"Real-time bandwidth" shows current bandwidth usage diagram and top 20 computers.
3. Protocol Bandwidth Usage Report.
The "Protocol Usage Report" shows the exact bandwidth usage for different protocols of each computer.
And the bandwidth details:
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