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Monitoring Bandwidth Usage - Sky Q

redpix87 — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 10:28:04 GMT

Hello! First of all thank you for all the great info that you've been sharing in these message boards.

I currently have SuperFast Sky internet in my house and get a steady 80mbs.

There's 3 people working from home in my house and whilst the internet signal is strong (I pay for boost and I've had the engineers here checking) sometimes a device might go 'off' and completely drain my bandwidth meaning it might cause anyone on a zoom call to freeze / stutter. An example is my xbox - I try to turn it off but if I forget it might start updating during the day and it really uses most of the bandwidth if it does.

That said I have so many devices (apple tv, SKY Q Hub, nest cameras, etc) that I wanted a better idea of what is actually using my internet so I'm not left guessing what actually happened. In the router settings I'm able to access the list of connected devices and they seem to be ordered by recency, however I'd love to get a better idea of how much they're actually using up. Is there a way? Happy to explore any software that might work.

TLDR: Is there a way to assess device usage within my network?

Thank you!

Re: Monitoring Bandwidth Usage - Sky Q

Chodley — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 11:40:33 GMT

I wouldn't worry about Sky, it's internet access is pretty throttled even if you download something in UHD. Maybe 25-30Mb. Steam or an xbox update will happily chew up everything they can get

Some routers have QoS settings that try to prioritise voip & video services.

Does wireshark show bandwidth consumption?

Re: Monitoring Bandwidth Usage - Sky Q

xenon81 — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 14:55:47 GMT

I'm on Virgin Media 500Mb and have seen my Sky Q box downloading at up to 120Mbps, but more commonly it is around 70-90Mbps. I have an ASUS Router, it has a great interface showing how much bandwidth each device is using in real time but I believe with Sky broadband you're tied to their own router.