Re: [Ethereal-users] Help

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Bill Heinson wrote:
> I administrator a 50 user network. (2003 Server) Internet access is 
> through a local ISP who hosts our Email. 1.5M DSL. Internet speed goes 
> into the toilet at regular intervals. Sometimes down to 26K, dial up 
> speed. I have worked with the ISP but I suspect that a number of users 
> are listening to streaming music or watching streaming video.
> I have a laptop with Ethereal hooked up to a 4 port hub. So far, in 
> just capturing certain users, (network is static IP addressed) I have 
> so much data, I can't make a lot of sense out of it.
> What I need to know is who is taking up a large amount of bandwidth at 
> any given time. I would like to know where they are going, but this is 
> secondary to the speed issue.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Bill
You may try using the Statistics->Endpoints (IP tab) to see which IP 
address(es) uses most bandwidth. Then you filter the traffic using right 
click in this dialogs most interesting row.

Regards, ULFL