Which one to blame?

[Cyberduke]

We are running a small home network with 5 pc's and 5gb capped internet. All the pc's have access to the internet.
We have already used 4.6 gb of the 5gb cap. Which seems impossible since I have not downloaded something big. And nobody else clames to have do so. But someone has to take blame.

Which leads me to my question: Is there a way to determine which pc is using all our prescios cap? Is there software that I can download? Pleez I need to catch this thief!!

[WiK1d]

Net Limiter

[Ron2K]

Unsecured/insecure wireless?

[THE_STIG]

Unsecured/insecure wireless?

Most likely.......my next door neighbours had one of these, and I would spend the whole day watching Top Gear at their expense But they seem to have put a password on, about time I was able to do this for 3 months

[Sojourn]

Do not underestimate the size of software updates for x5 OS's and other random sw updates.
I'm not saying that's the culprit, but it is something to keep an eye on.

[KALSTER]

Yeah, 5gig cap for 5 pc's is not a heck of a lot. A decent amount of browsing, email and updates will easily deplete that much. Better get a bigger cap. We use about 3 - 4 GB each month between my boss and me with no big downloads.

Edit: Wait; 4.6GB in 9 days? That's bit high.

[Bladerunner]

Unsecured/insecure wireless?

Most likely.......my next door neighbours had one of these, and I would spend the whole day watching Top Gear at their expense But they seem to have put a password on, about time I was able to do this for 3 months

A friend of mine got a fine of R14 000 for doing this. With a decent lawyer he was able to get it down to R7000.

[KALSTER]

Unsecured/insecure wireless?

Most likely.......my next door neighbours had one of these, and I would spend the whole day watching Top Gear at their expense But they seem to have put a password on, about time I was able to do this for 3 months

Not cool man.

[THE_STIG]

Most likely.......my next door neighbours had one of these, and I would spend the whole day watching Top Gear at their expense But they seem to have put a password on, about time I was able to do this for 3 months

Not cool man.

Hey, they were dumb enough not to have a password......I was teaching them a lesson

A friend of mine got a fine of R14 000 for doing this. With a decent lawyer he was able to get it down to R7000.

[KALSTER]

Hey, they were dumb enough not to have a password......I was teaching them a lesson

That is a lame rationalisation. You could have left them a note in their postbox.

[THE_STIG]

That is not the Albertonian way

[KALSTER]

[JollyJamma]

I can't say I'm entirely innocent from stealing peoples cap but I learnt my lesson and stopped ages ago.

Put a network monitor on each PC or between the PCs and the router and see what you get.

I use 9gigs easily between 4 computers and 2 smart phones but that's in a month.

[Cyberduke]

Unsecured/insecure wireless?

Wired (network cables), and the router does not even have wireless capebileties.

[Screeper]

Like Sojourn says, just have a look at OS updates.
Especially if there was a new install of an OS or even Office in the last 10 days..
A clean install of win 7 (pre SP1 in particular) which is set to auto patch for important and critical updates as well as patching Office will gobble up a gig and a half in no time at all.

Or what about if someone has just reloaded a game like WoW and patched it? That would blow your 5 gig in no time at all.