How to see what machine is eating the internet?

[Sylver_]

Hello!

I'm new to running the internet for my household. My brother used to run it, but we moved away and now I am the only one near capable of knowing what to do. Now, the thing is, I have no idea what I'm doing. It's a big problem.. It's pretty obvious how to set it up, but now I want to do more. It works fine, in fact I'm surprised considering we're running quite a cheap router, however something is chewing up bandwidth and slowing down everyone else. According to everyone, nothing should be killing the internet, yet something is and I have no idea how to tell..

The router is called the N300, though it also says DGN2200v4 somewhere on the box, and I have no idea which one is correct. I've searched and apparently i can tell through the "Traffic Meter", but I turned it on and have no idea where to go from here.

All I would like, would be to tell which machine is killing the internet.

Thanks for any help! 😀

 

[jsmithepa]

As users discover new things to do, Internet can clog up rather quickly. If the N300 is in the intersection of everybody then that would be a good place to look for traffic loads. I do no know if the N300 has such capability. Is not that hard, go into the N300's Tools, Network, Log etc and see whether it gathers that information. If it doesn't then you need a better, and most likely a costlier box for the job. Sometimes, the ISP modem, more precisely a gateway box (you know it's a gateway if it has 4 Ethernet port on the back) has such capability, go in there and investigate.

In the future, a new router with QOS capability, where you can control the bandwidth of each user maybe in the xmas list.

 

[Kewlx25]

You're only as good as your tools. If you have a cheap router, then there's not much you can do. And don't put much stock in "QoS", it is rarely useful in most routers, especially cheap ones. QoS in high end routers is extremely useful and easy to use. I just built my own for $800 and install PFSense on it. If I built one now, I could probably do so for about $500 with so many more decent cheaper low power options.