Network Traffic Monitor

What fact about networks allows?

dnice1042 asked:

What fact about networks allows network monitor software installed on a computer to analyze all traffic on a network, not just the traffic intended for that computer?

Vernon

For my comrades helping the Iranian resistance?

Samantha asked:

The purpose of this guide is to help you participate constructively in the Iranian election protests through twitter.

1. Do NOT publicise proxy IP’s over twitter, and especially not using the #iranelection hashtag. Security forces are monitoring this hashtag, and the moment they identify a proxy IP they will block it in Iran. If you are creating new proxies for the Iranian bloggers, DM them to @stopAhmadi or @iran09 and they will distributed them discretely to bloggers in Iran.
2. Hashtags, the only two legitimate hashtags being used by bloggers in Iran are #iranelection and #gr88, other hashtag ideas run the risk of diluting the conversation.
3. Keep you bull$hit filter up! Security forces are now setting up twitter accounts to spread disinformation by posing as Iranian protesters. Please don’t retweet impetuosly, try to confirm information with reliable sources before retweeting. The legitimate sources are not hard to find and follow.
4. Help cover the bloggers: change your twitter settings so that your location is TEHRAN and your time zone is GMT +3.30. Security forces are hunting for bloggers using location and timezone searches. If we all become ‘Iranians’ it becomes much harder to find them.
5. Don’t blow their cover! If you discover a genuine source, please don’t publicise their name or location on a website. These bloggers are in REAL danger. Spread the word discretely through your own networks but don’t signpost them to the security forces. People are dying there, for real, please keep that in mind.
6. Denial of Service attacks. If you don’t know what you are doing, stay out of this game. Only target those sites the legitimate Iranian bloggers are designating. Be aware that these attacks can have detrimental effects to the network the protesters are relying on. Keep monitoring their traffic to note when you should turn the taps on or off.
7. Do spread the (legitimate) word, it works! When the bloggers asked for twitter maintenance to be postponed using the #nomaintenance tag, it had the desired effect. As long as we spread good information, provide moral support to the protesters, and take our lead from the legitimate bloggers, we can make a constructive contribution.

Please remember that this is about the future of the Iranian people, while it might be exciting to get caught up in the flow of participating in a new meme, do not lose sight of what this is really about.
I’m an American who supports the cause.

Glen

Is it possible to change firewall settings or bypass a proxy without administrator priviliges?

Levi F asked:

I’m trying to play a couple of games at work while it is slow but I can’t connect because I’m assuming port 43594 is closed to TCP traffic. Is there any way to open that, or get around that somehow without admin status? Our network is monitored by a company called Websense I believe. And the proxy port is 8080.

Mildred

Extremely Frustrating Problem with my Internet Connection?

ZeRoFaTaLiTy asked:

Ok, so I use Verizon highspeed DSL as my connection to the web. I had it a year and a half ago, but I switched to Time Warner Cable for a year. Now my family has decided to switch back to Verizon for some unfathomable reason. The problem I have been experiencing of late is constant fluctuations in internet connection speed. It was never a problem with Time Warner Cable, but I DID have this problem when I had DSL even further back then Time Warner Cable. The difference is that in the past, DSL would start lagging in the evening hours. I assumed this was because of increased network traffic. However, I am now experiencing an entirely new problem with my internet connection.

At any time of the day, my internet connection experiences extreme fluctuations. I became extremely angry and began using Verizon’s online speedtest aggressively to monitor my internet connection speed. The results were like this: Around 30% of the time, the tests showed my connection to be almost 3MBps, what my parents pay for each month. I don’t mind it being a little bit less than that, but the fluctuations are far more rough than that. An example is this.

Test 1: 287MBps
Test 2: 243MBps
Test 3: 154MBps
Test 4: 123MBps
Test 5: 68MBps

And it’ll keep going up and down like that on a crazy scale. It’s not a problem that only occurs during night either, so please don’t give me the old “Oh, it’s slower because more people are on at night!”. These fluctuations occur within a minute, and are ALWAYS going on. Sometimes I get a few hours of bliss in which the connection remains above 2.5MBps, but those moments are pretty rare. At this point, my only ideas are: the internet service provider, the cables in the street, or the cables in my house. It’s definetly not a spyware or virus problem because I recently reformatted my computer (reset it to factory conditions) and I know how to completely clean out all spyware and whatever from my computer. Any ideas on what’s going on? I figure that as a possible solution, I might try and convince my parents to upgrade to Verizon FiOS. Despite my frustrations with Verizon, they do offer free installment for fiber optics with a 2 year plan…and that means a complete reworking of all internet cables in my house. And it means connecting with a completely different set of internet cables in the street. Thanks for reading.

Javier

Free Network Monitoring Software?

bigjoe11a asked:

What I’m looking for is some thing that I can download and install that will monitor all the traffic on a local area network. Some thing that will list all the IP Address and how much bandwidth they are using. PLEASE and one have any ideas.

Doris

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Bonnie

how can i monitor load on my network?

naveed_ipo asked:

Realtime stats about traffic

Ronnie

how to block specific user/ip to access specific domain in my network ? what should i invest/install?

Viktor asked:

my office has internet access, it shared with every staff. The problem is some staff are likely to chat, play facebook, etc… i would like to create a network policy for certain user to unable to access specific domain, like technicians will unable to access facebook while sales team can. i only would like to monitor the traffic so staff will not able to download large file or play torrent which can cause slow internet connection. Also like to monitor sites they visit (log files) so they unable to access site that don’t correlated with their duty (like porn sites, etc). i have windows server install (currently it act for internet sharing and file server only). Which software i should install ? or hardware should i invest ?

Willie

How can i monitor internet usage?

amarjit_mayfair asked:

How can i monitor internet usage on a network…means…i want to know who is eating up all internet bandwidth from office staff…so i want the traffic details per LAN IP of internet usage..and not the internal data transfer traffic.

i am using WRT54GL as my internet router with DD-WRT firmware on it.
it is just to see who is abusing the office internet.

Marcus

What is the best PC monitoring software for monitoring workstations?

Michael asked:

Would like it to monitor over a LAN for about 5 systems. Keylogger, network traffic, etc. Needs to have friendly setup for Antivirus and Antispyware programs and possibly email reports.

I’ve see a few and tested a couple but wanted some other opinions in hopes to saving some time in finding the right one!

Thanks
I decided to use Ardamax Keylogger 2.9. It works very well once you get it working with antivirus and antispyware programs.

Leonard