Network Monitoring

'ello,
so, I'm looking for a tool, or application (free, if not uberly cheap) to monitor my home network. By monitor i mean:
See the people connected
See how much bandwidth they are using
possibly kick them for too much bandwidth usage
just be able to check it in general.

If the bandwidth usage can't be seen, I'd *really* at least like to be able to see how is connected. The reason being:
My parents own a school, and some of the people in our building will leech from our/ my home network (appartment is in the same building as the school. School is a teach-english-to-korean school, so it's smaller) signal from outside, or random places.

Any ideas for an applications?
Thanks

What do you have for a router?

How are they leeching from your home network? Is your wireless unsecured?

It's a netgear router.

Sorry, i forgot to say. it's a PW protected network, but we gave the PW to 1 student, and now like the whole school knows it *sigh*. It's making it slow!

Change the pw and/or setup MAC filtering - not hack proof but enough to stop 'squatters' I would imagine.

illuminate said:

It's a netgear router.

Sorry, i forgot to say. it's a PW protected network, but we gave the PW to 1 student, and now like the whole school knows it *sigh*. It's making it slow!

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Takes like...2 minutes..to change your WPA key...change the couple of computers in your house....and you're re-secured.

Not sure which model Netgear...there are some router monitoring packages out there if you have an SNMP enabled router.

Many *nix router distros have it already built in..and can get quite detailed. I run a package called BandwidthD on my PFSense router..I can monitor traffic "per computer"..and throttle it also.

Look at a Linux distro. I use IPCOP and i can track all the connections and users online .

I second pfsense. I used it at a company I used to work for, and bandwidthD is great for seeing who's downloading what. The traffic shaping was really powerful too.

Even if the Netgear supports SNMP, it's going to be difficult to narrow down what type of traffic is coming from where. It will really only give you total bandwidth through the router.

alright, thanks guys. I was going to change the PW to begin with, but i also wanted to monitor it to see what the traffic and bandwidth usage is like from my other computers connected.!

Thanks aagain!