Lan monitor

Is there some easy-to-use and free program that i can use to monitor
my LAN connection.
I've tried Wireshark but it is far too complicated.
I've got something ringing home.
Avast doesn't flag it so i'm hoping it's not malicious.

[Default] On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 20:32:15 +0100, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general "dick" wrote:

Is there some easy-to-use and free program that i can use to monitor
my LAN connection.
I've tried Wireshark but it is far too complicated.
I've got something ringing home.
Avast doesn't flag it so i'm hoping it's not malicious.

I still don't know LAN from other area networks, and even if I did, I
wouldn't know the answer in this case, but I learned something very
intersting today, at least for Vista and above, not sure about XP.

Task manager, cntl-alt-delete, performance tab, click on resource
monitor. If you have that button??? , it has a Network section.

In message , Micky
writes:
[Default] On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 20:32:15 +0100, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general "dick" wrote:

Is there some easy-to-use and free program that i can use to monitor
my LAN connection.
I've tried Wireshark but it is far too complicated.
I've got something ringing home.
Avast doesn't flag it so i'm hoping it's not malicious.

I use the ancient Kerio Personal Firewall - but it seems to detect
anything trying to "'phone home".

I still don't know LAN from other area networks, and even if I did, I
wouldn't know the answer in this case, but I learned something very
intersting today, at least for Vista and above, not sure about XP.

Task manager, cntl-alt-delete, performance tab, click on resource
monitor. If you have that button??? , it has a Network section.

For just bandwidth _usage_, rather than what's using it, see a recent
discussion (I think it was here, might have been the 7 'group);
basically there are lots, and I use
http://codebox.org.uk/pages/bitmeter2.
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[Default] On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 20:32:15 +0100, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general "dick" wrote:

Is there some easy-to-use and free program that i can use to monitor
my LAN connection.
I've tried Wireshark but it is far too complicated.
I've got something ringing home.
Avast doesn't flag it so i'm hoping it's not malicious.

I still don't know LAN from other area networks, and even if I did, I
wouldn't know the answer in this case, but I learned something very
intersting today, at least for Vista and above, not sure about XP.

Task manager, cntl-alt-delete, performance tab, click on resource
monitor. If you have that button??? , it has a Network section.

XP has a networking tab with 3 traces on the graph and the option
of 26 columns in the info window, but nothing that i can see that
will give me IP addresses so i can find out how is ringing home.

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
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In message , Micky
writes:
[Default] On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 20:32:15 +0100, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general "dick" wrote:

Is there some easy-to-use and free program that i can use to monitor
my LAN connection.
I've tried Wireshark but it is far too complicated.
I've got something ringing home.
Avast doesn't flag it so i'm hoping it's not malicious.

I use the ancient Kerio Personal Firewall - but it seems to detect
anything trying to "'phone home".

I still don't know LAN from other area networks, and even if I did, I
wouldn't know the answer in this case, but I learned something very
intersting today, at least for Vista and above, not sure about XP.

Task manager, cntl-alt-delete, performance tab, click on resource
monitor. If you have that button??? , it has a Network section.

For just bandwidth _usage_, rather than what's using it, see a recent
discussion (I think it was here, might have been the 7 'group); basically
there are lots, and I use
http://codebox.org.uk/pages/bitmeter2.
--

I am using netmeter, which does a similar job to bitmeter, but neither
will give the IP addresses.

[Default] On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 22:54:46 +0100, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Micky
writes:
[Default] On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 20:32:15 +0100, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general "dick" wrote:

Is there some easy-to-use and free program that i can use to monitor
my LAN connection.
I've tried Wireshark but it is far too complicated.
I've got something ringing home.
Avast doesn't flag it so i'm hoping it's not malicious.

I use the ancient Kerio Personal Firewall - but it seems to detect
anything trying to "'phone home".

I still don't know LAN from other area networks, and even if I did, I
wouldn't know the answer in this case, but I learned something very
intersting today, at least for Vista and above, not sure about XP.

Task manager, cntl-alt-delete, performance tab, click on resource
monitor. If you have that button??? , it has a Network section.

For just bandwidth _usage_, rather than what's using it, see a recent
discussion (I think it was here, might have been the 7 'group);
basically there are lots, and I use
http://codebox.org.uk/pages/bitmeter2.

I was planning to post about bitmeter or bm2, whichever I have.

I like it, and I thanked someone for it iirc, probably you.

But one of the things I noticed today is that even though it seems you
have to open a page in your browser to use it, it's running ALL the
time. I'm not sure how much time Resource Monitor and Resource
Overview take to list and then erase an entry -- if an entry can show
even though it's ended? -- but I can see as many as 8 or 10 entries
for BitmeterCaptureService.exe, at the same time, each of them writing
12K B per minute. That's not a lot, but it's 24/7, even though I
only looked at the meter over the course of 6 hours, but two months
ago. That's becuase it helped me figure out that my problem is not
excessive network traffic but excessive harddrive use!!!! And running
this has incresased my hardrive use, at least a little.

There are two services running because of it, BitMeterCaptureService
and BitMeterWebService. I just went to System Configuration and
unchecked both boxes, but that didn't change how much file writing was
going on, so I went to Task Manager/Services, highlighted the first
one and clicked on Services... That took me to Services/Services
Local where I stopped the BitMeterCaptureService. (I don't think that
would have been necessary had I restarted windows), and the status
became blank and after that, Resource Monitor showed a sudden uptake
in reading, 450K B/min, but then all the related lines disappeared
over the next 2 minutes or so.

I suppose if I want to use BitMeter again I'll have to restart or
recheck the BMCaptureService and maybe BMWebService (or reinstall, but
that seems unneeded).

It's not in the startup programs but the services.

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microsoft.public.windowsxp.general "dick" wrote:


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[Default] On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 20:32:15 +0100, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general "dick" wrote:

Is there some easy-to-use and free program that i can use to monitor
my LAN connection.
I've tried Wireshark but it is far too complicated.
I've got something ringing home.
Avast doesn't flag it so i'm hoping it's not malicious.

I still don't know LAN from other area networks, and even if I did, I
wouldn't know the answer in this case, but I learned something very
intersting today, at least for Vista and above, not sure about XP.

Task manager, cntl-alt-delete, performance tab, click on resource
=================
monitor. If you have that button??? , it has a Network section.

XP has a networking tab with 3 traces on the graph and the option

I'm not talking about the networking tab but about the Performance
tab, which in Vista at least has a Resource Monitor... button. That
leads to an overview of many things include Network.

of 26 columns in the info window, but nothing that i can see that
will give me IP addresses so i can find out how is ringing home.

I hadn't looked at the Network overview before but I just did, and it
shows what look like outside network ip addresses for some of the
network activity, but I'm not sure. Please post back.

dick wrote:
Is there some easy-to-use and free program that i can use to monitor
my LAN connection.
I've tried Wireshark but it is far too complicated.
I've got something ringing home.
Avast doesn't flag it so i'm hoping it's not malicious.



TCPView ?

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...ernals/tcpview

For Wireshark, you need to use View : Name Resolution, and
tick the items in the lower part of the menu list. That
converts numeric addresses to the text addresses you
were expecting. There is still a place for Wireshark,
once TCPView identifies something interesting that needs
further checking.

Paul