[GRLUG] Finding the bandwidth hog

[megadave]

Failing that, disconnect things one at a time (less important things
first, of course) until it stops.

Then reconnect the last thing you disconnected, and investigate what
that thing is doing vs what its supposed to be doing.

If you can do "groups of things" and identify the group, then you can
do individual stations in that group/segment.

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 15:10, Richard Maloley II
<richard at rrcomputerconsulting.com> wrote:
> Ben,
>
> Do you have any sort of managed switching environment in place? If so then
> you should be able to check each switch/port and identify the culprit rather
> easily. That will get you to the necessary network segment then the much
> smaller task of identifying the individual/computer can commence.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard Maloley II
> Rick and Richard Computer Consulting
> p: 616-284-1694
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>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Benjamin Flanders <flanderb at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:13 PM, megadave <megadave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > While cisco "enterprise" hardware in general is good stuff, the cisco
>> > pix is garbage - it is the exception that proves the rule..
>> >
>> > I wouldnt rule out that it was part of the problem.
>> >
>> > what type of pipe do you have, how much bandwidth are you seeing in
>> > use, how much upload vs download, what is the primary use of your
>> > network? is this mainly office with people surfing the net, do you
>> > have server farms, etc?
>>
>> We have a fractional T1 smart-T through Paetec.  1.33 up and down.
>> Using paetec portal as the visualizer, our download utilization is
>> pegged most of the day.  The network is mainly for e-mail, and
>> reporting from our software vender.  We do have people running
>> streaming services, but I have asked them not to for the afternoon.
>> We do have our website on the network but that is a small static site.
>>
>> Also I am on windows right now trying to do this.
>>
>> Share and Enjoy
>> Ben
>>
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