In the face of internet service providers like Comcast instituting bandwidth-capping, the Simple Help weblog details how to use a router running the open-source DD-WRT firmware to monitor your ...

When I was a CIO for a chain of hospitals, I often found that one of the toughest parts of my job was purchasing. It wasn't that I had a hard time picking out products or services. The problem was ...

If you haven't heard of "Internet throttling" by now, you will soon in all likelihood. Major cable-based ISPs are considering (if not implementing) hard bandwidth caps on their users each month, which ...

If your home or mobile Internet plan is not unlimited, having a simple way to track your bandwidth usage is important. Even if you aren’t concerned about a data cap, you may be curious about your ...

Windows only: Bandwidth monitor NetWorx is packed with tools to help you keep on top of what's happening on your network. As shown above, Networx offers network Statistics, Incoming Traffic, and Speed ...

Joining a slew of management vendors, AdventNet last week announced it would launch a NetFlow-based bandwidth-monitoring tool to help network administrators identify application traffic on their nets ...

I'm having some issues with my current internet connection and the ISP techs are unable to find a problem. For the last three nights for about a 3 hour period, I get very sporadic access to the ...

Every now and then I'll notice that my internet access is slow. I live in a rural area and I'm happy to have DSL at all but my ISP service is 3mbs down 1mbs up. So it doesn't take much to make a ...

For most users a good wireless router is the one that you set up in a few easy steps and forget about it as long as it gets you online. Any decent consumer-grade wireless router will do the job well ...

ISP bandwidth and wireless router speed don't directly change one another, but they both play a role in getting the fastest possible connection to your Internet-ready devices. The connection speed you ...