The D-Link Cloud Router may not win performance contests, but it’s inexpensive and it lets you monitor and control network activity remotely via iPhone and Android apps. D-Dlink’s DIR-605L is unique ...

In the face of internet service providers like Comcast instituting bandwidth-capping, the Simple Help weblog details how to use a router running the open-source DD-WRT firmware to monitor your ...

Based on RRDTool, Cacti is "a complete network graphing solution." That means that Cacti polls your devices, gathers the data, then provides graphs based on what you configured. Cacti is a free open ...

PRTG is pretty cool for monitoring a small network. Take a server or VM to run it though as it can eat a lot of CPU time if you turn on all the bells and whistles and need to watch a lot of traffic.

Those of you who monitor routers and switches, I would like your "best practices" input on monitoring routers and switches specifically. We use EM7 as our monitoring platform at my company, and I ...

Optus has announced its WiFi Secure product, which makes use of active monitoring by McAfee software sitting on home routers in an attempt to block the spread of malware and other malicious threats.