In the face of internet service providers like Comcast instituting bandwidth-capping, the Simple Help weblog details how to use a router running the open-source DD-WRT firmware to monitor your ...

One of the features included with most newer wireless routers is bandwidth usage monitoring. A bandwidth monitor lets you keep track of exactly how much data is uploaded and downloaded through your ...

When I was a CIO for a chain of hospitals, I often found that one of the toughest parts of my job was purchasing. It wasn't that I had a hard time picking out products or services. The problem was ...

If you haven't heard of "Internet throttling" by now, you will soon in all likelihood. Major cable-based ISPs are considering (if not implementing) hard bandwidth caps on their users each month, which ...

If your home or mobile Internet plan is not unlimited, having a simple way to track your bandwidth usage is important. Even if you aren’t concerned about a data cap, you may be curious about your ...

Every now and then I'll notice that my internet access is slow. I live in a rural area and I'm happy to have DSL at all but my ISP service is 3mbs down 1mbs up. So it doesn't take much to make a ...

Based on RRDTool, Cacti is "a complete network graphing solution." That means that Cacti polls your devices, gathers the data, then provides graphs based on what you configured. Cacti is a free open ...

Monitoring Internet traffic takes on many forms. From capturing every packet of data to seeing a list of accessed websites, numerous programs enable you to view what happens between your network and ...

Mesh Networks is a privately held bandwidth management solutions technology company. Mesh has developed and brought to market the NetProfit® and QuotaDefender® Systems, bandwidth management and ...

I'm having some issues with my current internet connection and the ISP techs are unable to find a problem. For the last three nights for about a 3 hour period, I get very sporadic access to the ...

Your router can do all this—and your ISP doesn't want you to know ...