Bandwidth Usage?

[ttheobal]

I am trying to determine how much bandwidth is being used by a device on my network.

I have a D-Link Di-524 router and 3 computers hooked up. My fourth Ethernet connection is IP based TV . My Dad wants to hook up the IP TV at his place too. This means getting Highspeed over wireless in his region. This comes with monthly Caps. I want to determine the approximate throughput this IP TV uses so I can calculate approximately how many hours of TV he could watch in a month before he hits the cap imposed by the isp.

The TV service requires 2Mbps, but I know it doesn't comsume the whole all the traffic. Just how much traffic it needs is the question.

Any assistance would be helpful

Thanks.

 

[plshlpme]

the iptv is not offered my the internet provider?

 

[FaiTHLeSS]

If the router supports snmp then you could run something like mrtg to monitor the router.

http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/

Which extra scripts and things you can get it to do daily totals of data sent through each port on the router, wan interface.

 

[Crowtalks]

You stated that it was a wireless connection that you have. If you're using Directway, your bandwidth cap is 400kbps

 

[ttheobal]

I solved my problem. This is what I did.

I bought myself a hub. And plugged a PC and the IPTV STB into the hub. I then used Ethereal to monitor the packet data for 30 minutes on 3 different occasions. Using this technique, I was able to determine that the IPTV uses 360MB transfer per hour. Thanks for your replies.