kev hath wroth:
I haven't tried it but I've seen an earlier version run a few years ago. It runs on a Unix/Linux/BSD box that also doubles as a router. It's fairly simple and as I recall, didn't impact the host (Pentium/133) very much. We decided not to use it because it lacked a daily/weekly/monthly summary for each client that was suitable for billing. It would be easy to add, but nobody want to do the work.
It also lacked what I call "clutter management". It's fine for troubleshooting and abuse inspection, but when the number of clients gets about perhaps 50, it really became difficult to find things.
What we settled on for network monitoring and management was Nagios (Formerly NetSaint):
which is probably massive overkill for a home system with a few wireless users. I could spend literally weeks playing with all the nifty plugins and probes. However, this is really for an ISP NOC and not for home users.