Re: Who is connecting?

"jerrygarciuh" <jerrygarciuh@xxxxxxxxx> hath wroth:

I have a LinkSys Wireless-G Cable Gateway. I run it unsecured so that
my neighbors in post-Katrina New Orleans can share the connection.

What happened to the free municipal wireless for New Orleans? Did
Earthlink deliver as promised?
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71040-0.html
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2006May/bpd20060530036451.htm
http://www.earthlink.net/about/press/new_orleans_network/

However I think some of these folks are hogging the pipe.

That's almost a certainty. If it's not peer to peer file sharing,
it's a worm infected machine. If you're running an open system, you
still need some form of bandwidth management to prevent one user from
hogging all the bandwidth.

I have seen
the Mexican visitors across the way watching the World Cup or news from
back home on their laptop and they may be using my line, or not.

Sigh. Easy to find out. Right in the middle of a World Cup match,
when the tension is at maximum, pull the plug on your wireless router.
If you hear yelling and screaming from the Mexican visitors, they're
using your wireless connection.

Anyway, I would like to see how many boxes are connecting and what
their bandwidth usage is. The router config does not offer this (at
least not graphically).

Anyone got a third party app (maybe a log analysis app) to recommend?

Sure. I use Log Viewer
http://svs.sv.funpic.de/
The problem is that I'm not sure if your Linksys Wireless-G cable
gateway box is supported because I don't know the model number. Is it
a Linksys WCG-200 v2 or something else? If so, it's not supported.
Bummer.

There's also:
http://home.comcast.net/~jay.deboer/airsnare/ (free)
http://www.wallwatcher.com (free)
http://www.linklogger.com ($50)



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