Network Monitor

[TechMerlin]

Does anyone know of a good freeware network monitor tool that can display or identify machines using up more bandwidth then others? I am trying to find something just basic to help ID a few problem machines / users compared to others.

thanks

 

[lerdalt]

Either wireshark or any netflow utility should be able to do what you are looking for.

 

[PeterHurst]

I think Wireshark will be too confusing as it's for packet inspection rather than traffic.

If you are familiar with SNMP and your devices support it use the demo versions of PRTG - they will let you probe devices (and PC's) to create graphs of utilisation or ping response. The freeware version does up to 10 "sensors" ie ports or devices. I'd recommend gettign a hold of the older version as it's simpler to understand than the new version (V7).. but that may just be me.

 

[Serena18]

Capsa can do that, although it is a sharewell not freeware, it has free trail version you can use for 15 days. You can try it, it's very easy.

http://www.colasoft.com/download/products/download_capsa.php?prid=0608