Bandwidth usage measurement per workstation?

[Japman]

Greetings Fellow Beings,

My local LAN setup consists of 4 workgrouped pc's in an ethernet network. I have a Netgear DG834V5 router attached to an 8 port switch. All pc's are running XP.
My pc's are setup with static ip's in the 10.10.10.x range on the ethernet adaptor for specific reasons required by a retail application,

The netgear router resides on the default 10.0.0.x range. I have setup each of the pc's with ip aliases so that they can connect to the 10.10.10.x (local LAN) as well as the 10.0.0.x range (WAN) for internet connectivity.

I am now required to measure the WAN bandwidth being used by each of the 4 workstations.

I have tried ShaPlus Bandwidth meter only to find that it measures "all" traffic coming in and out of the single ethernet adaptor. The only other solution would be to install a 2nd NIC, but I only have 1 wall mounted data point per workstation. Would one be able to source a "splitter" for this ?

Also, would windows SNMP also yield the same results as it would not know the difference between the LAN and WAN traffic on the NIC?

Last question is, would the Netgear have something available in the router firmware to accomplish this?

Much appreciated.
Japman.

 

[AeroVPS]

Why don't you install a bandwidth monitor on each workstation?

See: http://www.bwmonitor.com/
Just one of the Google results returned.

 

[AeroVPS]

Actually looking at the link I gave you, that's not free and I found something that's freeware, and looks pretty good. This seems to be exactly what you need.

http://www.rokario.com/products/bandmon/2-0/

 

[Japman]

Have done that, but it is including the data for an application that is mapped to the workgroup server as well, which is not the true WAN bandwidth being used!

See: http://www.bwmonitor.com/
Just one of the Google results returned. [/QUOTE]

 

[morfo]

I like ProteMac Meter, anybody heard about this prog?

 

[crackedatom]

Been trying out http://codebox.org.uk/bitmeterOs for a little while now. You can access the interface locally/remotely via a web browser so you don't have to physically go to each box.
There might also be a setting to collect data from other machines in newer versions, but I don't recall offhand. Still beta at the moment though