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Monitoring bandwidth usage by individual computers in a home network

Submitted by Khalid on Sun, 2010/05/30 - 12:53

Anyone with more than a couple of computers on a LAN will sooner face the issue of increased bandwidth usage by someone on the LAN. Be this teenagers downloading via torrents, employees watching YouTube and Facebook videos, or other reasons.

Finding a suitable tool to allow bandwidth monitoring and capping proved to be not an easy task. I am still looking for a solution, but have a few pointers to share.

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