[thelist] How to find the bandwidth hog(s) on my LAN?

[Ron]

Most LANs use a switch that machines and access points attach to and 
then get sent to the gateway machine/device. The switch is where port 
activity can be readily monitored. Even the cheap "web" based switches 
usually provide some port stats. If you don't have a switch you can get 
stats from, you'll have to tell us more about how your network is setup 
and maybe someone can come up with a suggestion.

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On 05/07/2012 10:30 AM, Francis Marion wrote:
> I'm not a networking genius, I've got fundamental working skills, but I could use some advice on the matter. There is one or more machines on our network that is causing our pipe to be steadily saturated. There are hard-wired machines and some wifi connections.
>
> We have a couple of Mac file-sharing servers and a couple of SVN/iChat servers.
>
> What tools can I use, and how can I get a listing of all the connections and see the amount of in&  out that they are using? In a perfect world (I don't know if this is possible) I would have a list or map of all the connections on my LAN with the machine identifiers and some sort of numeric or chart info that would be more or less easy to find at a glance.
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> Part of the problem that I'm experiencing right now is that I don't know how to get the total of all the ports on all the machines. Is it YouTube? FTP? Streaming radio? I don't know how to suss that out.
>
> I do have *some* familiarity with WireShark. If that's the tool to use, can someone recommend a good URL?
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
> --
> Francis Marion
> francis.marion at sfroy.com
>