Morning Forum – I’ve run a forum search (limited to responses/posts within the last 1 year) on “bandwidth monitoring” – but didn’t see anything I thought actually on point. FWIW, I have Norton 360 & Norton Utilities v15 installed on two Windows 7 machines and one laptop. I’m looking to make an “intelligent” choice/decision about future internet service and access. To do so, I’d like to get some idea of my “typical” or average monthly home (currently a DSL line feeding into a Netgear DGN2000 combo wifi router/ADSL modem) internet usage actually is.
I.e. how many mega bytes or gigabits of data am I burning through on a monthly basis between my Home Office desktop, the iPad, a laptop and Sonos wifi music system. Do I stay with the hard landline DSL service; or should I consider moving everything over to a wireless cellphone, and probably data limited plan?
So, a couple of questions. I see Norton 360 has a “Check Network Security Map” etc., but does it offer something like a “montor network (in this case, router traffic) function that could give one daily, or weekly or monthly traffic loads? I don’t see anything in the Norton Utilities tool box that looks relevant to trying to track & quantify net usage.
A couple of world wide web searchs with Google have given me a list of other possible 3rd party programs/utilities that might fill the bill, but I’ve no personal experience with any of them, such as i.e.
Network Monitoring Apps:
- NetWorx
- NetLimiter
- Bitmeter II
- BitMeter OS (PCWorld recomendation)
- NetSpeedMonitor
- PRTG
- Wireless Network Watcher
It would be nice if Norton, either as a part of it’s Internet Security package (Norton 360) or the Norton Utilities program offered a feature like this. . . . . or maybe Norton already does this, and I’ve just been too thick to figure out how to access the information.
Any help, pointers or suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks, Mike