Our internet connection at the office is extremely slow again and Visual Route Light indicates a problem with the ADSL connection. The last time this happens we contacted the ISP and he told us it’s due to P2P traffic, so we advised our staff that P2P is not to be used. However they might have “forgotten”.
Thus I wonder if there is any tool that could help me to identify the problem, tell me which PC (IP address will do) is involved and what kind of data is transferred. I do not need to see the content itself.
Oh, and I can’t ask our IT engineer because I caught him before downloading porn and using our server resources to stitch those files together.
interestingly i was thinking about this recently as well. until just last week I always let utorrent run in the background and not a problem for my colleagues and I. bandwidth a plenty…
internet in the morning seems to be slow now tho, traceroutes don’t indicate a problem and a speedtest (asia server) seemed to be fine so I was looking for some way to check for throttling (eg tcp reset seems to be the most common technique).
Maybe they sh** canned our dsl. sometimes its downloading like a champ, sometimes its crap. our modem/router might be the source of the problem, not sure.
your request is a bit different so maybe some ethernet sniffer software that can tell you how much bandwidth is being used and where its going to. umm… 3d2f.com/tags/packet/sniffer/traffic/
dunno, have a hunt around
the other approach is to lock down the pc’s but sounds like your IT engineer is probably the source of the problem. hahaha
if you have access to the router, you can enable logging and use a log reporting tool to get some stats
How many employees are there? Are you ‘the boss’ or the owner (or none of the above)?
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Thanks parkerfairfield, I think we have it under control now; some stern words from the boss (not me, I am just “3rd in command”) seem to have done the trick.
Rascal, assuming the company has a decent router, then the router software will allow for certain ports not to allow traffic, some even allow for P2P traffic in general to be banned as well. Suggest you look at the router software interface, probably web based and see if it can be altered to achieve what you need.
