Comments on: Bandwidth Monitoring Tools for Ubuntu Users

By: nelson

nelson — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:35:02 +0000

Is there any tool for ubuntu to perform the above task

By: nelson

nelson — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:32:55 +0000

how to get the track of total amount of data uploaded and downloaded from server through web by different IP

By: Erdem U. Altinyurt

Erdem U. Altinyurt — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 01:53:42 +0000

Netmon Screenlet is the best for linux for me..

By: Michael Brewer

Michael Brewer — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:49:34 +0000

Excellent synopsis of great monitoring tools, thanks.

By: guest

guest — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:34:05 +0000

I’ve run into this information while looking for info on how to monitor traffic and connections. I just wanted to comment it has been really useful for me, specially pktstat. Thank you.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:22:35 +0000

Good list, thanks.

Don’t forget that Ubuntu has a graphical monitor installed by default. Check out the System Monitor in System Administration.

By: Nuwan

Nuwan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:03:54 +0000

I have tried to install and run some of the above mentioned programs. But they are either too complex for me to understand or they are too simple for me to get all the information and capability required. I have noticed there is an idea posted in ubuntu idea sand box to develop a simple, effective tool for bandwidth metering for ubuntu.

The best solution for me for the moment is to use something developed for Windows, through Wine. I and trying networx and it seems to be working.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:41:49 +0000

Which program will also monitor other PC’s bandwidth on the network?

By: Arun Khan

Arun Khan — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:54:45 +0000

A very comprehensive list of b/w monitoring tools. Thanks very much for putting the list together with example screen shots.

@ashoka1:
You can list your interfaces with the following command “/sbin/ifconfig -a | less”

Since you are using a modem, your network interface is most likely ppp0. In the above tools specify “ppp0″ for the interface parameter.

By: ashoka1

ashoka1 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:45:12 +0000

hi
i am using GPRS modem to connect to the internet.do you have idea how i can check the bandwidth?
nice article. thanks.

By: Bradford Mitchell

Bradford Mitchell — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:16:50 +0000

pktstat is in the Ubuntu repos now, no need for alienating it from an rpm. Just installed it today.

By: skada

skada — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:05:11 +0000

Hi,
is there a tool which can monitor bandwidth usage per subnet ?

My connection is
user2
|
internet--->modem--->switch--->user1

I wish to see bandwidth consumed per user here. Anyway posible?

By: admin

admin — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:08:57 +0000

@greg

i would recommend cacti which can do all you are looking for

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 26 May 2008 10:47:56 +0000

Hi,

I really need a tool to understand my home’s (i.e. various PCs/Xbox etc) usage of my internet allocation. I run a linux based firewall. Are there any good linux based software packages you could recommend for this? (i.e. all my traffic goes through my http://www.clarkconnect.com/ PC firewall at the moment, i.e. with 2 NIC cards). What I’m after is:

[1] Tool that summarises my family’s internet bandwidth usage (on ppp0) per internal IP address/PC, per day, per upload/download?

[2] As a bonus it would be great if the report [1] above could also be configured to break down the traffic based on hours of the day, i.e. to compare against the ISP Peak & OffPeak bandwidth limits.

Regards
Greg

By: Sigmus

Sigmus — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:12:02 +0000

I don’t see why system monitor isn’t good enough for these tasks, just add it to the panel in ubuntu and you’ve got yourself a real-time network meter!

By: Steven Brady

Steven Brady — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:32:56 +0000

Thanks so much for this list. You’ve helped me out greatly!

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:59:19 +0000

Gnome panel has a “System Monitor” applet that displays processor load

Right-click on the graph, and you can also add more graphs - including to display a rolling graph of your Network usage - very pretty and good for judging how much of your bandwidth you are using

Jay.

By: C Sincock

C Sincock — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:30:40 +0000

In response to Tony’s slander about gkrellm . The G in Gkrellm does not stand for GNOME - it stands for Gtk or GNU (as stated in the FAQ at the gkrellm site) (and you can see the logo has the words Gtk Monitors under it).

Gtk != GNOME
Gtk = good, GNOME = rubbish

Anybody should be able to tell that gkrellm is not a GNOME application though, as it actually is configurable and is able to do handy stuff that people with a brain might want it to do. Any GNOME version of gkrellm would have long since had all features removed in favour of not confusing the ‘users’.

Sorry to go a bit off-topic there.

By: fantasyl

fantasyl — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:55:47 +0000

Same as Zygron here…..I’d like to monitor bandwidth usage for device and for EACH running process/task. A tool to monitor and assign a specified network bandwidth for each task does not exist in the beautiful unix world , does it?
I’ll take a look at all the program mentioned before…..but already did a search a few months ago, and came up with nothing

Any help appreciated!

By: Zygron

Zygron — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:39:35 +0000

I have searched around for a while and can’t find what I am looking for.
And I realise that I’m probably not at all welcome here due to the fact that I am a Windows user.
If anyone is familiar with was I need it would be greatly appreciated.
I’m currently running netlimiter pro on all of my computers at home which are all connected to the internet through a Netgear Wireless router (WGR614)
I am very happy with the netlimiter program but what I want to be able to do is monitor how much bandwidth usage each computer (or device in the instance of my Nintedo DS and Nintendo Wii) is using and if possible to be able to monitor how much each program or process on each individual computer and be able to monitor it all on one program running on my main computer.
Pretty much an extensive version of Netlimiter.
Thank-you in advance for any help you can provide.