OT. FOAK Network Traffic Monitor/Meter

Situation we have is a small home network, One (main) desktop PC
ethernet wired to ADSL modem, one desktop and two or three laptops
wirelessly connected using same ADSL connection, all running through a
BT Voyager 2100. One laptop runs W98SE the rest run XP Home. We won't
be changing OS'

We know what the total traffic stats are for the ADSL connection 'cos
they're held in a log of the Voyager management software, but I'd like a
small program to monitor what each separate computer is doing, if

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Netmeter

Does what is sez on the box.

*ding* works well, works on all systems we have and can be left to run
with stats being read later, most excellent, thanks.

Very much.

possible.

Must br free of charge as it's probably going on all computers but it's
only needed to 'check' who's doing what and is unlikely to be left for
longer than a week or two, unless it proves too useful to lose. At
present we only have a 1meg connection and when we're all on, or if the
kids leave something downloading it slows dramatically, so I want to see
who amongst us is the worst bandwidth hog. Not bothered about being
sneaky, in fact I'd like the kids to 'know' we're starting to watch what
they're doing ... ;) So it would be nice, also, to have a visual
confirmation of traffic flow, maybe similar to the traffic meter bars on
Zone Alarm. We've just removed ZA as it now seems to be causing
problems, but the Traffic Meter part of it was very handy.

Be nice if someone could give us a nudge in the right direction.

I don't know what the windows package is like, but the linux one works well,
is stable and doesn't eat memory.

I thought about trying this

but ended up, on Pip's recommendation IIRC, using this

as I like the instant speed readings.