Network monitoring is the technique which is used to see what's happening in a computer network. In business, a network monitoring system monitors many things such as incoming threats to the network, components which slow the network down, data transfer, crashed servers and many things.
For a home user though, network monitoring simply means monitoring the download and upload rates of the computers in a network, usually in order to see what's taking up too much bandwidth. Today, I will be talking about network monitoring for home users.
It's rather easy to monitor your network lately, thanks to the variety of network monitoring software around...
