Monitoring (W)LAN Traffic

Occ

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So I'm looking for a program to look at internet traffic on the network I'm hooked up to (renting). Basically I would like to be able to host a Terraria server on occasion and upload some stuff on uTorrent or whatever. I'm confident the cable (Comcast) is capable of this. The wierd thing is, I can sometimes get good upload speeds (around 200+ kbps on uTorrent), but other times it's absolutely abysmal. I have not been able to figure out the correlation between the times and the upload speeds. And I always get good download speeds (14 mbps on speedtest.net, vs 0.05 mbps or so upload).

Anyway, I would like to rule out the possibility that another device on the network isn't doing something shady and taking all the upload speed. The guy I rent from isn't too tech savvy so this is definitely possible (I recently upgraded the old WRTG45 router firmware and moved him from WEP to WPA2-Personal).

I've tried Wireshark, but it appears to mostly be for my own machine, unless I fail at using it, which is entirely possible. So, any suggestions?
 

ViviTheMage

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torrents are relied 100% on the people you're sharing with. They may only be uploading at 1kb/s for all you know. I would not gauge your capable upload speed on torrents.

The "best" place to test is speedtest.net really..
 
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Occ

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I take your point about the unreliability of torrents. However, in this case I think it's still relevant (and I did post the speedtest.net results...). The most I've been able to measure on the speed test is 0.9 megabits up (an order of magnitude faster than 0.05). 0.9 megabits = 115 kilobytes. If I was seeding torrents at ~250 kilobytes (so far this is apparently an anomaly) that would be roughly 2 megabits, or double the highest speed I've seen so far, never mind the instances where I've measured 0.05 megabits up on the speed test.

Regardless, it would still be nice to figure out what the other devices on the network are doing.