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Here's my current network set-up: we have 3 users connecting to a Thomson Gateway router (TG585 v8) provided by my ISP. We are connecting over an ADSL line.

The problem is that we have a limited data allowance (60GB) and we always exceed it.

I would like to monitor how much traffic each computer makes. The best solution would be to install a software on the router (like OpenWRT) which would monitor how much traffic each computer makes. But I couldn't find any replacement firmware that would support my router.

The other solution would be to install a software on each machine and then collect all the data at the end of the mount. But that's not a very good think to do. Plus, the users can always shut down the application.

Any suggestions?

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Assuming you have Windows on those machines, you could try this

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/nsl.htm

More screenshots/how to here: http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/09/09/how-to-monitor-your-internet-bandwidth-usage-in-windows/

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i've used the analogx software, it's per computer, as I guess you know. But the second link about using analogx software looks really good and comments mention that that solution doesn't scale so well and suggests "...using a solution like Smoothwall on an old PC to act as a gateway"...(to monitor bandwidth and you can use QoS too so P2P doesn't hog bandwidth)" That was written in 2007 so you might use torrents instead and bitche.. QoS may be useful..in addition to monitoring bandwidth. – barlop Apr 20 '11 at 20:57
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