Who's stealing my bandwidth

November 28, 2006 1:07 PM

How do I track where my bandwidth is going. I've got 2 computers set up on a wireless network. With DU Meter installed. One of the computers is showing a significant increase on D/L and U/L traffic over the other. I want to track where the traffic is coming from on the bad computer ie it's connecting to www.zombiecomputer.com.
posted by lloyder to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Ummmm, this isn't an obvious issue; you need to describe a lot more about your computers and network. For example, what operating systems do they run? Is the computer with more traffic running any services or net-connected apps on it, such as bittorrent, AIM, or whatever? Are they both connected at the same speed (i.e., both at 802.11g, both using a similar kind of card)?
posted by delfuego at 1:21 PM on November 28, 2006

type netstat -a at your command prompt, that will show you all your open connections.

TCPview is a nicer graphical version of this. You can download it here.
posted by damn dirty ape at 1:24 PM on November 28, 2006

Ethereal is pretty handy for situations like this
posted by Drunken_munky at 1:54 PM on November 28, 2006