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Now that Comcast only allots you 250 GB, I was curious if anyone here might know of a good way to monitor the bandwidth you are using.

I am probably no where close to the limit, but still rather curious to know how much I am really downloading. I am looking for network wide and not just software that will monitor one computer, since I have other devices like xbox, wii, ps3.

I am thinking of using router firmware like Tomato or DD-WRT, but I would have to get a new compatible router.

Is anyone else here monitoring bandwidth usage and if so what is it? Has anyone tried one of those third party router firmware?

if your current router supports snmp, you can use something like mrtg or cacti, if you have a dedicated server.

I've used dd-wrt in the past, worked pretty slick, but I don't remember using the graphing built in.

Ooh, I hadn't thought of that, and I do have a dedicated server.

It doesn't look like my router has snmp. Do they offer it in consumer based routers or are they mainly on business\higher end routers?

I think the DD-WRT routers support SNMP, if you have one laying around.

yeah, dd-wrt/tomato will let you do snmp.

I guess I really need a different router.

Cool, thanks guys!

You could always set up an old machine to be your router. I recommend IPCOP, but there are a lot of good distro's out there for it.

(I had it running pretty well on a 266mhz machine.)

pf Sense

looks like pfsense is based off m0n0wall. I will have to check it out sometime.

it is, but it has a better interface.