how to monter network activity

[okmate]

Hi guys sick of seeing my leds on my modem flashing like mad i wondered is there a good utility that you can moniter network traffic thanks guys

[Egren71]

A good network traffic monitor is Wireshark, it is a network sniffer and grabs packets of your network for analysis. It is available for may platforms and is released under the GNU General Public License. This may or may not be what you was after. If you only have one device on your network ie your computer then Wireshark may be more than you need. If you only have one device and are getting network traffic when you would not expect to have any then i would be inclined to check you computer for viruses and spywhere. Also if you have a half decent firewall then you can use that to restrict which applications can talk to the network. Other things to check would be if your network has wifi then make sure that you network is secure and that no one is using it who shouldn't be.

[okmate]

A good network traffic monitor is Wireshark, it is a network sniffer and grabs packets of your network for analysis. It is available for may platforms and is released under the GNU General Public License. This may or may not be what you was after. If you only have one device on your network ie your computer then Wireshark may be more than you need. If you only have one device and are getting network traffic when you would not expect to have any then i would be inclined to check you computer for viruses and spywhere. Also if you have a half decent firewall then you can use that to restrict which applications can talk to the network. Other things to check would be if your network has wifi then make sure that you network is secure and that no one is using it who shouldn't be.

thanks mate tried that program but to be honest cant make head or tale of it could do with something a bit easier to understand

[Canker_Canison]

Is your network protected via a password?

If it is, what type of encryption is it with? i.e. WEP, WPA/WPA2, etc.

If it's WEP I'd be changing it to WPA or WPA2, you will also have to change your password.


There are other ways to monitoe traffic, but none of them are really easy to understand for a beginner.