I tried the traffic grapher but couldnt figure it out. I have an unmanged switch into a basic 4 port router (Dlink DI-604). The problem is I cant find where to enable SNMP. Any suggestions?
I wouldnt be so concerned about bandwidth, as much as reliability. I previously had a cable modem which was indeed very fast at times, however, there were a few times each week where it simply crashed. The internet would stop working. I had technicians from the cable company over multiple times and I tried many different configurations with boosters. It never failed to crash at the worst times. I got in the habit of rebooting the cable modem. The connection speed was 30 mpbs. Very very fast. I switched over to DSL which is 5 times slower at 3 mpbs. I have not had one problem yet with the configuration. Very reliable. Fios should come out soon and I should switch to a 15 mpbs connection in the future. So reliability is the key factor.
Do you have access to the manual for your router? I Googled one here. Do you have access to the web-based administration application as per the manual? If so, once you have logged in: - click on the Advanced tab at the top, and then select SNMP from the options on the left. - Make sure the Enable SNMP option is checked. - Leave the Get and Set Community with the default entries. - Click on Apply. This should enable SNMP on your router. Now, when running the PRTG Traffic Grapher: - Click in the middle of the screen where it says "Click here to add your first sensor" - Use all of the default choices offered by the Wizard. - Enter the IP address of your router. It will be the same IP address you use to get to the web-based administration application. - It will scan the router. Click, click, click. Pretty graphs. Good luck. MoMoney.
That router trick is pretty helpful, thanks. I'll take a slightly slower highly reliable connection over a higher speed slightly reliable connection any day.