[ NNSquad ] Re: Visualizing your bandwidth...

[Jay <backasswards@gmail.com>]

On Nov 26, 2007 8:57 PM, Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> wrote:

Hi,

So, I was thinking that it might be useful for consumers to be able to
see how much bandwidth they are actually using -- sure there are many
consumer applications that will monitor the bandwidth that the local
machine is using, but monitoring the bandwidth that all of the
machines behind your NAT is somewhat trickier for most users.

There exists replacement system software/firmware for most home/office routers. One such project is OpenWRT ( 
http://openwrt.org/ ). Installation is pretty simple, in many cases the user is able to use the router's web interface to flash the OpenWRT firmware onto the router. OpenWRT incorporates many cool features, such as throughput graphs, tracked connection graphs, and many more real time graphs. Since it is Free Software ( 
www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html ), any features that you want you can easily add.