[tolet]

Hi I would like to kknow if someone is downloading on the net as I live in a shared house. I do know that theoretically it does go slow, but when it does go slow how can I know for definte.

[Hybr!d]

Take a look at their PC, that's the only way if you just running a router. If you had a server you could monitor in detail.

[eppoeh]

you could ping google, that's how i check weather my dad is dl'ing pr0n again...

in command prompt type: "ping www.google.com"

should be somewhere between 10 and 40. if it's awefully higher, you're then you can be sure somebody is sucking away a lot of bandwidth:)

[tolet]

hi i did do that in cmd. can you at all tell me what or how to read what is going onhere please. i dont understand a thing

[spot]

Presumably you have a wireless router, that's the only interpretation I can think of for your query.

I also presume you're the administrator for the router.

Log into the router and see what leases it's assigned. The leases give permission to access the Internet. The logged information will tell you the MAC addresses of the machines that it's authorized. Those MAC addresses identify the computers getting to the Internet through the router.

[Hybr!d]

A router only says who's connected, it doesn't reveal what they are doing.

To do that you need a central server loaded with the relevant software.

[spot]

I obviously misunderstood the question then. I saw "if", not "what".