Who is connecting?

Hi all,

I have a LinkSys Wireless-G Cable Gateway. I run it unsecured so that
my neighbors in post-Katrina New Orleans can share the connection.
However I think some of these folks are hogging the pipe. I have seen
the Mexican visitors across the way watching the World Cup or news from
back home on their laptop and they may be using my line, or not.

Anyway, I would like to see how many boxes are connecting and what
their bandwidth usage is. The router config does not offer this (at
least not graphically).

Anyone got a third party app (maybe a log analysis app) to recommend?

TIA

jg

jerrygarciuh wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a LinkSys Wireless-G Cable Gateway. I run it unsecured so that
> my neighbors in post-Katrina New Orleans can share the connection.
> However I think some of these folks are hogging the pipe. I have seen
> the Mexican visitors across the way watching the World Cup or news from
> back home on their laptop and they may be using my line, or not.
>
> Anyway, I would like to see how many boxes are connecting and what
> their bandwidth usage is. The router config does not offer this (at
> least not graphically).
>
> Anyone got a third party app (maybe a log analysis app) to recommend?
>
> TIA
>
> jg
>
Wallwatcher -- free

http://www.sonic.net/wallwatcher/

Duane

"jerrygarciuh" <(E-Mail Removed)> hath wroth:

>I have a LinkSys Wireless-G Cable Gateway. I run it unsecured so that
>my neighbors in post-Katrina New Orleans can share the connection.

What happened to the free municipal wireless for New Orleans? Did
Earthlink deliver as promised?
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71040-0.html
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/20...0530036451.htm
http://www.earthlink.net/about/press...leans_network/

>However I think some of these folks are hogging the pipe.

That's almost a certainty. If it's not peer to peer file sharing,
it's a worm infected machine. If you're running an open system, you
still need some form of bandwidth management to prevent one user from
hogging all the bandwidth.

>I have seen
>the Mexican visitors across the way watching the World Cup or news from
>back home on their laptop and they may be using my line, or not.

Sigh. Easy to find out. Right in the middle of a World Cup match,
when the tension is at maximum, pull the plug on your wireless router.
If you hear yelling and screaming from the Mexican visitors, they're
using your wireless connection.

>Anyway, I would like to see how many boxes are connecting and what
>their bandwidth usage is. The router config does not offer this (at
>least not graphically).
>
>Anyone got a third party app (maybe a log analysis app) to recommend?

Sure. I use Log Viewer
http://svs.sv.funpic.de/
The problem is that I'm not sure if your Linksys Wireless-G cable
gateway box is supported because I don't know the model number. Is it
a Linksys WCG-200 v2 or something else? If so, it's not supported.
Bummer.

There's also:
http://home.comcast.net/~jay.deboer/airsnare/ (free)
http://www.wallwatcher.com (free)
http://www.linklogger.com ($50)



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> Sigh. Easy to find out. Right in the middle of a World Cup match,
> when the tension is at maximum, pull the plug on your wireless router.
> If you hear yelling and screaming from the Mexican visitors, they're
> using your wireless connection.

I dunno about that advice. Given how rabid some soccer fans can be that
might be taking an awful lot of risk!

"Bill Kearney" <(E-Mail Removed)> hath wroth:

>> Sigh. Easy to find out. Right in the middle of a World Cup match,
>> when the tension is at maximum, pull the plug on your wireless router.
>> If you hear yelling and screaming from the Mexican visitors, they're
>> using your wireless connection.

>I dunno about that advice. Given how rabid some soccer fans can be that
>might be taking an awful lot of risk!

No problem. Just point the barbeque dish antenna at the angry
onrushing horde of soccer fans. Yell "Back off or I'll sterilize
you". That should stop them in their tracks.


--
Jeff Liebermann (E-Mail Removed)
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

> No problem. Just point the barbeque dish antenna at the angry
> onrushing horde of soccer fans. Yell "Back off or I'll sterilize
> you". That should stop them in their tracks.

Funny, but I'm not seeing in that in my handy english/spanish phrasebook...

"Bill Kearney" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > No problem. Just point the barbeque dish antenna at the angry
> > onrushing horde of soccer fans. Yell "Back off or I'll sterilize
> > you". That should stop them in their tracks.

Babelfish thinks it's: "Retroceda o le esterilizaré."

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Thanks for all of that information!! Checking the apps links now.

jg


Jeff Liebermann wrote:
> "jerrygarciuh" <(E-Mail Removed)> hath wroth:
>
> >I have a LinkSys Wireless-G Cable Gateway. I run it unsecured so that
> >my neighbors in post-Katrina New Orleans can share the connection.
>
> What happened to the free municipal wireless for New Orleans? Did
> Earthlink deliver as promised?
> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71040-0.html
> http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/20...0530036451.htm
> http://www.earthlink.net/about/press...leans_network/
>
> >However I think some of these folks are hogging the pipe.
>
> That's almost a certainty. If it's not peer to peer file sharing,
> it's a worm infected machine. If you're running an open system, you
> still need some form of bandwidth management to prevent one user from
> hogging all the bandwidth.
>
> >I have seen
> >the Mexican visitors across the way watching the World Cup or news from
> >back home on their laptop and they may be using my line, or not.
>
> Sigh. Easy to find out. Right in the middle of a World Cup match,
> when the tension is at maximum, pull the plug on your wireless router.
> If you hear yelling and screaming from the Mexican visitors, they're
> using your wireless connection.
>
> >Anyway, I would like to see how many boxes are connecting and what
> >their bandwidth usage is. The router config does not offer this (at
> >least not graphically).
> >
> >Anyone got a third party app (maybe a log analysis app) to recommend?
>
> Sure. I use Log Viewer
> http://svs.sv.funpic.de/
> The problem is that I'm not sure if your Linksys Wireless-G cable
> gateway box is supported because I don't know the model number. Is it
> a Linksys WCG-200 v2 or something else? If so, it's not supported.
> Bummer.
>
> There's also:
> http://home.comcast.net/~jay.deboer/airsnare/ (free)
> http://www.wallwatcher.com (free)
> http://www.linklogger.com ($50)
>
>
>
> --
> Jeff Liebermann (E-Mail Removed)
> 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
> Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
> Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

Yeah well try this on BabelFish: ask for the spanish for vegetables
and then take what it gives you and translate the spanish to ingles.

I have confirmed that BabelFish gives the Spanish of r vehicles when
asked for vegetables. Sent them a heads up last week.

Bill Kearney wrote:
> "Bill Kearney" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed) t...
> > > No problem. Just point the barbeque dish antenna at the angry
> > > onrushing horde of soccer fans. Yell "Back off or I'll sterilize
> > > you". That should stop them in their tracks.
>
> Babelfish thinks it's: "Retroceda o le esterilizaré."
>
> http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Thanks Duane!

jg


Duane Arnold wrote:
> jerrygarciuh wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a LinkSys Wireless-G Cable Gateway. I run it unsecured so that
> > my neighbors in post-Katrina New Orleans can share the connection.
> > However I think some of these folks are hogging the pipe. I have seen
> > the Mexican visitors across the way watching the World Cup or news from
> > back home on their laptop and they may be using my line, or not.
> >
> > Anyway, I would like to see how many boxes are connecting and what
> > their bandwidth usage is. The router config does not offer this (at
> > least not graphically).
> >
> > Anyone got a third party app (maybe a log analysis app) to recommend?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > jg
> >
> Wallwatcher -- free
>
> http://www.sonic.net/wallwatcher/
>
> Duane