How to monitor network bandwidth and internet connections?

Video downloading, IPTV programs or p2p programscan easily consume most of your available internet bandwidth. To make your internetmore efficient, it is important for you to monitor internet bandwidth of each computers on business network.   This tutorial will guide you insetting up and using "WFilter Enterprise" to monitor yourInternet bandwidth (uploading and downloading). 1. Setup a SPAN port for monitoring.   Port mirroring, a feature of manageable switch, allows you to setup a monitoring port in the switch to receive packets of other ports.  First, you need to setup a SPAN port in your switch. And the computerwith WFilter installed in shall be connected to the SPAN port.   Read this example for details to setup port mirroring: Deploy internet monitoring using a port mirror switch . 2. Real-time bandwidth monitoring.   Upon properly deployed, using WFilter, you will be able to monitor all computers internet activities and all internet connections.   The "Online Computers" shows a list of online computers on your network.   The "Real-time bandwidth" shows current internet bandwidth usage diagram and top 20 bandwidth computers. 3. Protocol Bandwidth Usage Report.   The "Protocol Usage Report" shows the exact bandwidth usage statistics for different protocols of each computer.   Bandwidth details:

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