How to Check Bandwidth Usage on Computers

Learn how to check bandwidth usage with BrowseReporter, a powerful internet monitoring software for tracking the bandwidth consumption and web browsing habits of employees.

Internet Bandwidth Usage Reports

Streaming videos from Netflix can consume up to 7GB of data per hour. Users that misuse the internet in their workplace aren’t only harming their own productivity, they also strain the available bandwidth and increase network latency.

Reduce Latency

Slow internet speeds caused by bandwidth abuse reduce the effectiveness of your workforce through dropped VoIP/video conferencing connections, longer wait times to access critical resources, and internet connection loss from excessive overload on network hardware.

Save Money

Bandwidth consumption history reports allow you to strategically plan investments in upgrades to networking hardware. With bandwidth consumption insights you have the data you need to determine if upgrades are truly necessary.

Detect Malware

Monitor for bandwidth spikes that are caused by dangerous torrenting websites and malware that turns endpoint devices into botnets or rigs for unauthorized cryptocurrency mining (‘cryptojacking’).

BrowseReporter bandwidth tracking dashboard

Bandwidth Usage Summaries

  • Review data sent and received each day for groups & individuals
  • Identify abnormal spikes or dips in expected bandwidth usage
  • Discover who is responsible for the greatest bandwidth usage
BrowseReporter Bandwidth Usage by Sites report with 13 different URLs listed.

Monitor Bandwidth Usage by Website

  • Track websites that may need to be blocked to reduce latency
  • Identify the websites that demand the most bandwidth
  • Track websites that may need to be blocked to reduce latency
Bandwidth usage graph: Top 5 groups by download and upload bandwidth usage

Top Users & Groups by Bandwidth Usage

  • Discover which users and departments require the most bandwidth
  • Get early warning signs of anomalous bandwidth usage
  • Easily discover who is responsible for bandwidth abuse in your network

 

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Why Use Bandwidth Monitoring Software?

Bandwidth monitoring tools are critical for diagnosing network latency, identifying employees that are hogging bandwidth, and determining whether or not costly network upgrades are necessary.

Problems Caused by Bandwidth Abuse:

  • Lost VoIP/video conferencing connections
  • Lost productivity from high network latency
  • Reduced reliability of internet connectivity
  • Network crashes from excessive overloading

 

BrowseReporter top 5 bandwidth hogging users
BrowseReporter bandwidth usage per computer report

How To Check Bandwidth Usage Per Computer

With BrowseReporter’s client installed on each endpoint, network administrators can easily check bandwidth usage for each user, device, and workgroup in the organization.

  • By User: Track the amount of bandwidth sent and received by each user to discover who is using the most bandwidth.
  • By Computer: BrowseReporter allows you to check bandwidth usage per computer, allowing you to identify computers that may be infected with viruses.
  • By Group: Users can be sorted into groups such as departments, workgroups, and other organizational units. CurrentWare supports Active Directory for easy group management.

BrowseReporter provide insights into both the upstream and downstream data usage within the network.

The bandwidth reports indicate data consumption from specific websites, providing the insights needed for discovering which commonly abused websites can be blocked to improve internet speeds.

CASE STUDY

Shady Maple Transforms Their Productivity With Internet Filtering and Monitoring Software

Being able to identify negative browsing trends and put a stop to them within a couple of hours has meant that our employees are focused on the job almost all of the time. We have become an extremely efficient workforce.

"When we first saw the employee tracking reports we were totally surprised by some of the behaviors that had gone under the radar" - Kevin Porsche, IT Admin, Shady Maple

Check Out Our Great Reviews

The reports are very easy to understand and the fact that they can  be emailed to you on a schedule is amazing, and have made finding productivity killers VERY easy. Customer support has been fantastic every time I've had to reach out to them; I highly recommend them!

Kristen S., Associate IT Director
Specialty Coding Services Broker, 51-1000+ Employees

BrowseReporter is simple to use and provides our company with the information we were looking for. Having BrowseReporter installed has prevented any internet abuse. This was exactly what we wanted!

Denise P., IT Manager
Paper & Forest Products, 51-200 Employees

In my nearly 40 years in the IT business I’ve worked with a lot of support teams. I really appreciate CurrentWare going the extra mile to help me get the most out of the product. They’ve definitely outweighed any of the other competitors that I’ve looked at.

Jerry Slocum, Managed Services Provider
Haggerty Auto Group, 150-200 Employees

BrowseReporter is an extremely useful piece of software for monitoring our employees' devices while they are at work. It enables us to view data in real time, conduct detailed analyses of each employee's activities, and improve productivity where necessary.

Sebastian P., Chief Marketing and Customer Experience Officer
Retail Industry, 10,001+ Employees

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Track mouse and keyboard movement to monitor inactivity

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Enable optional privacy-enhancing features to improve transparency and minimize data collection

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Use the included Microsoft SQL Express database or connect your own SQL server

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