Wifi activity detection ...

[marc_256]

Hello,

I use :
[Win 10 pro x64]
Slow (SBC) computer with win 10 OS for some PB applications ...

There is something strange with my Wifi activity ...
When I use the task manager,
it seems there is no activity, but I feel there must be more.

Is there a wifi activity viewer program in PB (5.72x64),
or stand alone (free) software ?

thanks,
Marc

[spikey]

You can do basic network monitoring with SysInternals' Process Monitor tool which you can download for free from: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysin ... ds/procmon.

There's a set of tutorials at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkHBaBX ... mJ5hz3VWTs, if you've not used it before. Watch 'Basic Operation', 'Display and Capture Filtering' and 'TCP/IP tracing' to start with. (Unfortunately they're all in English rather than Flemish).

Use the 64-bit version ProcMon64 rather than ProcMon and allow to start as an admin.

You should set up two filters: 'Operation begins TCP' and 'Operation begins UDP' so that you can see network events in isolation (hundreds of events are generated every second and the results are overwhelming if you don't filter).

Bear in mind though that you will only be seeing network operations for the PC on which ProcMon is running. (Capturing broader Wifi packets is a whole other game!)

[idle]

Take a look at wireshark
https://www.wireshark.org/

[bembulak]

Take a look at wireshark
https://www.wireshark.org/

I'd go for that as well. But if it's really a slow snail of a computer, WS will probably have/cause problems too.
If that is the case, put it behind a raspi that works as a proxy and see the traffic there.

[marc_256]

@spikey
@idle
@bembulak

Thanks for your help,
but this is much to far for my knowledge as a 2D/3D designer ...
What I'm looking for is a stand alone program like task manager,
where I can click WIFI and see a graphical result.
I was following some youtube movies about wireshark, and this looks very complex for me.

marc

[Michael Vogel]

Maybe...
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/awatch.html
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/network_traffic_view.html
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/network_usage_view.html

[tj1010]

Glasswire.... It's free.. You don't need tutorials to learn it..

Unless you're talking about the traffic of all clients on the subnet, then you need Wireshark and something to modify the ARP table to route all their packets through your MAC. Assuming the gateway doesn't have AP isolation and the router is just something retail without ARP protection