Realtime traffic analysis using port mirroring/packet sniffing

[Skelshy]

We have been having quite a bit of streaming problems around the house. The dropouts last anywhere from 5 to 20 seconds or sometimes the stream (twitch, youtube, Netflix, HBO) just times out and has to be restarted.

I have a smart switch so the obvious approach was to set up a mirror port. I added a second NIC to one of my machines and unbound all protocols. I can now capture all traffic going in or out of my Netgear R7000.

However, the answer is probably not on the packet level. Is there a free or inexpensive software that allows for traffic monitoring? I am looking for an answer that either clearly blames my wireless network. or Frontier FIOS. In a sense that I can see 3000 kbit/s going in for a time and then not... or something like that.

There's a bunch of commercial stuff that I was able to find... the kind where there's not even a price posted Don't mind paying a reasonable price.

Thanks
Skelshy

 

[sfx2000]

have you looked at ntop? they have a community edition

 

[Skelshy]

Thanks, I'll give that a whirl

 

[cobra_shipwreck]

I am looking at a reporting solution using the asus merlin firmware and pulling daily reports on a per device basis. I can report back if my solution would work, but an on the fly method as you are wanting may have more administrative overhead than you are wanting to deal with.