>Nicholas,
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>Hi. Routers in general have firmware you can access. This contains a page or two of info wherein you can view who is logged in at the moment.
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>If you want to make sure only your 4 PCs and the Apple Mac are allowed, you can, use the MAC Filter feature usually present in routers.
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>If you really want to be more serious and monitor whatever one PC does, you can setup one as a Firewall Gateway.
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>Happy Holidays!
>
>Dennis

Hi Dennis

I mainly want to know who is using what package and how much traffic its generating. Would a firewall approach give me that ?

I know only the devices I allow are using the network so I don't think MAC address filtering would be useful.

My netgear router doesn't seem to have much in the way of monitoring