If you have a dual-band router, you might see another WL. For Wi-Fi traffic with the “WL (eth1)” tab, which is particularly useful if you suspect you’re not the only one using your WiFi network when you should be. If your router is hardwired to your modem and you want to know what traffic is like on the WAN/Broadband connection, “WAN (vlan1)” is the segment to watch. Networx is great if you only use Windows PCs, but it’s an incomplete picture otherwise.Each of these tabs is telling you something about one kind of traffic coming in or going out of your router. Networx doesn’t work with Linux systems, Macs, Chromebooks, smartphones, non-Windows tablets, game consoles, set-top boxes, smart TVs, or the many other network-connected systems and devices you might own. Unfortunately, this only works with Windows PCs. if you just have a single PC, no problem - you can use Networx to track bandwidth usage for one PC. So, if you have five different Windows computers on your home network, you can sync them up with Networx to track bandwidth usage across all PCs in a single place. Its most useful feature is that it can synchronize bandwidth reports across a network. It’s a free Windows application that allows you to monitor the bandwidth used by multiple Windows PCs.

We’ve previously recommended Networx for monitoring your bandwidth usage. RELATED: Ask How-To Geek: How Can I Monitor My Bandwidth Usage? It’s much more useful if you’re monitoring a connection that only your device has access to - for example, a mobile data connection built into a Windows tablet. It also won’t line up with your ISP’s billing period. This feature can be useful, but it only works on Windows 8 devices and only tracks a single PC. It was clearly introduced to aid with mobile data usage and tethering, but you can mark any connection as a “metered connection” to track its data usage.

Windows 8 includes a feature that can track how much bandwidth you’ve used on a connection. RELATED: How to Restrict & Monitor Mobile Data Usage on Windows 8.1 Tools you use yourself can give you up-to-the-minute bandwidth usage information. For example, some ISP’s may update this bandwidth usage meter every day, although some may update it more frequently.

The downside of your ISP’s tool is that it may not be updated very frequently.

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