Nicholas,

Any of your existing PCs may be used. It can be installed in a Windows machine as an app that monitors your network traffic.

Dennis


>Hi Dennis
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>interesting but needs a dedicated PC to run it. (Which I don't have at the moment)
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>I'm really looking for something that'll just monitor traffic and give me some idea of whats generating it.
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>
>>Nicholas,
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>>I mainly want to know who is using what package and how much traffic its generating. Would a firewall approach give me that ?
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>> I know only the devices I allow are using the network so I don't think MAC address filtering would be useful.
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>>My netgear router doesn't seem to have much in the way of monitoring
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>>If u want to know who is into what, then a gateway firewall is the way to go. Check http://www.untangle.com out. This is what I use. Free. Open source. You only need a low-end PC like a 386 to do the job. Any of your existing PCs may be used as well. You can block, allow, set a lot of stuff.
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>>Cheers!
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>>Dennis