how monitor my wireless networks

Apprecaite if anyone could answer to the following:

  1. How to monitor the actual speed of my internet surfering ?
  2. How to know or monitor whether my wireless networks have been connected by someone else? Thanks
Reply to
c&c
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On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:16:38 +0800, "c&c" wrote in :

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Use WPA with a strong passphrase.

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John Navas

"c&c" hath wroth:

Netstat Live: |

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PerfMon: | Start -> Run -> perfmon.msc (Windoze performance monitor). Hit the "+" sign to add whatever looks interesting.

Windoze Task Manager: | Start -> Run -> taskmgr.exe Select "network" tab.

Lots of SNMP based tools: |

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Airsnare: |

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Reply to
Jeff Liebermann

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 20:00:05 -0800, Jeff Liebermann wrote in :

Yeech!

Reply to
John Navas

John Navas hath wroth:

Why? It produces some rather odd numbers at times, but basically works. I've used it for years with few suprises.

There are others:

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($20) etc.

I prefer SNMP for obvious reasons. The WEB100 sites you mentioned are great for benchmarking, but not monitoring. They don't give a real time measure of current up/down speed which is what I thing is being asked. Kinda like a speedometer.

Got any favorites?

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Jeff Liebermann

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 22:21:18 -0800, Jeff Liebermann wrote in :

My take: Poorly programmed. Not terribly accurate.

I personally use Windows XP monitoring, but of course it's not terribly user friendly. ;)

A number of more friendly and more accurate tools than Netstat Live, but I'm too lazy (tm JL) to dig them out before bedtime. (Remind me and I'll dig some up.)

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John Navas

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