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lesliecalvo3 · 2016-12-14T14:58:56.000Z

does any one know a free tool i can download that will monitor live the bandwidth of my internet connection

steve · 2016-12-14T15:12:16.000Z

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ross · 2016-12-14T15:18:40.000Z

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Neally · 2016-12-14T15:21:15.000Z

There are a ton of tools for that out there:

https://blog.serverdensity.com/windows-monitoring-tools/

markschumann · 2016-12-14T15:34:09.000Z

Are you talking your LAN’s WAN connection or you computer’s Network card?

I use PRTG to monitor our WAN.

Here is a link to the project.

https://community.spiceworks.com/people/markschumann/projects/network-display

mikecarpenter2 · 2016-12-14T15:35:40.000Z

You can monitor bandwidth from your router

jswansby2 · 2016-12-14T15:36:09.000Z

ptrg . You get 100 sensors free!

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brianwhelton · 2016-12-14T16:54:20.000Z

You should use netflow or something. Ideally measure from your perimeter device to a place within your ISPs core. Do a trace route and work out an IP address in there.

Most of these bandwidth tools go to a web server and provide a pretty GUI, however, the result is also measuring hte loss and latency of that server, the network it is on, the companies ISP, intermediate ISPs, your ISP and you internal network.

bensimpson3 · 2016-12-14T19:14:27.000Z

Logrhythm Freemium might do the trick

kimberley-paessler · 2016-12-15T10:00:24.000Z

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ptrg . You get 100 sensors free!

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Thanks for the mention, Jessica!

PRTG is designed for monitoring bandwidth, usually using SNMP and NetFlow.

You haven’t given much detail on what you’d like to monitor and why… SNMP traffic sensors will tell you how much traffic you have, so you know if your connection is congested or not. NetFlow and other flow protocols will tell you who or what is using the most bandwidth, based in IP addresses, MAC addresses and TCP/UDP port numbers.

If the problem is about losing Internet connectivity, then you can add a Common SaaS sensor (to check that you can reach the Internet), AND add some Cloud HTTP or Cloud Ping sensors to check that the outside world can reach you.

All of the sensor types I just mentioned are included with PRTG out-of-the-box. We offer a free 30-day trial version with unlimited sensors, which will automatically revert to our 100-sensor freeware version after the 30 days. If you’re only going to monitor your Internet router, the freeware version will be plenty!

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michael-adrem · 2016-12-15T15:21:29.000Z

Fire up the trial of our NetCrunch network monitoring system. We offer bandwidth monitoring within our suite, and can visualize traffic via SNMP on our layer-2 physical segments map, or if your devices support traffic flow, with NetFlow/sFlow dashboards.

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