Windows 10: Are there any programs that allow you to monitor bandwidth usage of other people on the...

Let's say I want to download something and I want to know if someone else is using the same wi-fi or how much bandwidth they are currently using.

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Network Bandwidth Monitor?

Several suggestions in this topic: Program to monitor internet bandwidth usage

 

Program to monitor internet bandwidth usage

I've seen people use more than 150GB fairly easily. Depends on what the typical usage is.

I knew you'd be in here suggesting PRTG. *Stick Out Tongue
I was going to suggest PRTG + SNMP off the router to see if you're actually seeing the same amount of data going out as your ISP is. Depending on the router, you may be able to monitor traffic in real-time to all clients, but that's not too common of a feature. I like remix's idea though. You might be able to just add the SNMP Windows feature and monitor via that, although I've never tried that myself.
If you need near-real-time SNMP monitoring, I like Flowalyzer. Not as good for longer periods of monitoring.

 

Safe bandwidth monitoring program?

On my previous computer, I used a bandwidth monitoring program called Networx. However, that computer later developed a crippling problem (the main hard drive locking up at random, unpredictable intervals). I had the computer tested, and the problem couldn't be identified, except that the hard drive was apparently not the issue. To this day, the issue still hasn't been identified.

I can't rule out Networx as a possible cause, as it apparently installs a driver during installation, and I have read posts here on TenForums that state that this driver may have caused computer crashes. But I need a good bandwidth monitoring program for my new computer that allows me to tell how much bandwidth I have used in a particular time period (my ISP takes three days to update my bandwidth usage information).

It turns out that there is also a portable version of Networx, which I downloaded and ran (on my new computer), before deciding that this was an unwise decision. Now, I'm afraid that even running it might have installed a dangerous driver, even though the program itself didn't have to install. I quickly deleted it, but the damage may have already been done. Is it possible that it did install a driver without my knowledge?

Does anyone know a good, safe bandwidth monitoring program, especially one that doesn't install drivers and hasn't been associated with computer crashes?