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Hi,
Unfortunately there is not a remote way to view this. To do so locally, you can view the adapter statisitics via:
1) Open up the network adapter properties.
- On XP, you can right click on "My Network Places" -> Properties -> Right click on the adapter (ie: Local Area Connection) -> Click
"Status".
- On Vista, you can goto the Network and Sharing Center -> Manage Network Connections -> Right click on the adapter (ie: Local Area Connection) -> Click "Status".
2) The status screen will give you real time info on the number of bytes sent and received.
That should help determine which machine has been sending or receiving lots of data.
Thanks,
/Chester
A couple of more thoughts....
1) do you have an open wireless router (if it's a car dealership....well mine does, for customers in the service waiting area)?
2) How are the 9 machines connected? hardwired? if so, there is probaly a router someplace with lots of little lights on it, if you can figure out which machine is which that will give you a place to 'go look' but unless it's a really high end router it probably doesn't keep any traffic stats...
3) are you sure the person that called you was an authentic tech with your dsl provider? Do you have caller-id? Did you agree to anything? Sounds more like a sales scam.... either by your own DSL companies wanting to bump you up a teir (less likely-the reputable ones wouldn't do it by calling you, they would just adjust the bill, per your terms of service) or MORE LIKELY from another company want to either sell you or slam you.
4) Your bandwidth is throttled by the size of the subscription you have with your DSL provider.... they don't care if you are approaching the maximum size of your pipe... you can't go over anyway... so it 'going back to normal' by the time you got on the phone doesn't make sense. If you were 'maxing out' it would be on a monthly bandwidth cap for your rate teir, so it wouldn't just go back to normal.
5) Might have been a 'pre-sales' call... some minimum or cash wage person that calls and asks a question or makes a statement to get the name of the person that they get transfered to. They may even google the person, or look at the companies webpage to see if they can tell if the 'name' is an owner or a secretary. The real salesman calls back later with alot of knowledge collected ahead of time. It may have even been a test to see what your reaction would be, to gauge your knowledge level in advance.
6) whoever handles your current telephone account and dsl account if they are not the same, should make sure that your accounts are registered with port blocking. This prevents your service from being transfered from one company to another without your consent. This kind of scam happens less these days than it used to, but it still happens...
The real tip off for me is "but while on hold waiting for me to pick up, the useage dropped to normal." That single portion of a sentence set alarm bells off....
Thanks for the replies and the tips.
4Runner:
1 yep car store
2 CAT5 no wireless
3 yes, he'd been helping with slow connection speed the previous week.
4 he was monitoring to see if our speed was OK
so it was innocent, actually trying to help.
I only know enough to be dangerous - but I'm the "expert" at work and keep everyone connected while doing my "normal" job.
What I don't understand is that we had a Linksys Firewall router, then a 16 port router/switch and in tha sales dept, a cheap little hub to branch off a couple cubes without running a dedicated wire all the way out there for each desk.
All the sudden, all I can get off the DSL modem is one more split from the 16 port.
If I put anything back between the two, the network dies, same with my little hub, it kills the computer it is connected to.
My DSL tech says that's normal and can't explain why it worked for three years previously.
What changed? Was it at the DSL side? Was I imagining that we all had internet connectivity?
My routers all work at home when checked on a Fios connection.
answers 1 and 2 confuse me. 1 was asking about wireless that might be included, but 2 states there is no wireless. FWIW.... the wireless question dealt was in answer to your wondering if anything outside the dealership/car store could be causing the problem.
There's not enough information in your post to really diagnose why you can't split again. Don't know if the router or the modem is handling DHCP duties, and if there is a limit there. In short tho from the outside, your place probaly gets one internet IP address, and with the right settings you should be able to handle any number of computers on the inside.
where this is going is probably outside what this forum's all about, but if you want to send me a private message I could probaly give you some help figuring your issues out. small business networks (2-16 machines) are my specialty, around my part of the country it is hard to find people that will mess with that size network for business. businesses of that size kind of fit into an IT void... not big enough for a salaried person with the responsibily but too small of an account for the 'managed' IT solution.
Thank you for your help.
I appreciate the answers.
rz