Real Time Traffic Monitor question... PS3 Media Server

[pulp]

I'm serving up via http://www.ps3mediaserver.org/ software "the.hobbit.an.unexpected.journey.2012.1080p.bluray.x264-sparks" 13 GIG of brilliance, expecting to see some massive numbers flying..... alas, nada. The I.P. that should be flying off the shelf is the last one: 192.168.1.28 That's the PS3 receiving a crapload of BW but appears to be receiving 0.

What am I forgetting, fellahs?

 

[PrivateJoker]

I'm serving up via http://www.ps3mediaserver.org/ software "the.hobbit.an.unexpected.journey.2012.1080p.bluray.x264-sparks" 13 GIG of brilliance, expecting to see some massive numbers flying..... alas, nada. The I.P. that should be flying off the shelf is the last one: 192.168.1.28 That's the PS3 receiving a crapload of BW but appears to be receiving 0.

What am I forgetting, fellahs?

So you're serving it to yourself and it's streaming intra-LAN successfully but just the traffic monitor by IP isn't working?

Out of curiosity do the graphs & #s under traffic monitor tab reflect traffic more or less accurately?

Did you manually assign the IPs or are they automatic?

And how is the PS3 connected to the router?

 

[pulp]

So you're serving it to yourself and it's streaming intra-LAN successfully but just the traffic monitor by IP isn't working?
CORRECT - From my SOHO to Family Room about 40 feet away.

Out of curiosity do the graphs & #s under traffic monitor tab reflect traffic more or less accurately?
Yes however, the traffic transmitting from my PC, the server, appears to only reflect part of the 5-30 Mbps the PS3 Media Server is sending out.

Did you manually assign the IPs or are they automatic?
Some yes, some not, will eventually have them all manually assigned. My PC is manually assigned, NOT the PS3.

And how is the PS3 connected to the router?
WIRELESS via my home network on the RT-AC66U.

 

[PrivateJoker]

So you're serving it to yourself and it's streaming intra-LAN successfully but just the traffic monitor by IP isn't working?
CORRECT - From my SOHO to Family Room about 40 feet away.

Out of curiosity do the graphs & #s under traffic monitor tab reflect traffic more or less accurately?
Yes however, the traffic transmitting from my PC, the server, appears to only reflect part of the 5-30 Mbps the PS3 Media Server is sending out.

Did you manually assign the IPs or are they automatic?
Some yes, some not, will eventually have them all manually assigned. My PC is manually assigned, NOT the PS3.

And how is the PS3 connected to the router?
WIRELESS via my home network on the RT-AC66U.

Can you take a screenshot of the graph on the appropriate wifi band while its streaming and we should see it with 15-40 Mb/s of upstream, right?

I will try doing something similar on my end and enable IP monitoring, and report back hopefully later today.

 

[pulp]

Serving up Stargate Atlantis - Season 4 to the wife and kids in master bedroom. It's a much smaller, lower rez file. This is a different PS3. Anyways, it's reporting the B/W properly in main Traffic Monitor, but again, NOT reporting in "Per Device - Real Time". PS3 IP: 192.168.1.36

 

[PrivateJoker]

Don't make fun of me, where is that screen "Traffic monitor by IP" that you are looking at? I enabled the option under tools > other settings. Theoretically I'm logging the info to disk as well.

 

[pulp]

Click Real Time (drop down menu appears) then Per Device - Real Time

 

[PrivateJoker]

Got it, thx! I never would have found that. . .

Traffic Monitor by IP Screencast


It kinda sorta works for me? First weird thing I noticed was the list of devices it had. . .(and the list changed shortly after I stopped recording), because some of these devices have zero network activity right now. And refreshing my list of connected devices on UI's main page, did update that list to more devices.

It's very odd because I have assigned names for 192.168.1.17 & .18, so why didn't their friendly names show up, but 192.168.1.23 showed up as TiVo... properly (actually all the TiVos did, which never seems to happen in other places of the UI) and all 3 of the devices I just named off are behind the same wireless media bridge, so, very weird that they all showed up by IP (I wouldn't have predicted that) and that 1:3 showed up with proper friendly name.

Either way yes the real time monitor really is real time, the #s only pop up and then go away quite quickly, even when streaming something steadily there were only continuous pops (and the scale I'm using is MB, maybe they pop much less frequently than Mb).

I started off streaming netflix to my AppleTV 192.168.1.18, so you can pretty quickly see that it's working.

Sporadically I was doing stuff with my iphone (...i5) including streaming a YouTube video in HD directly to it.

Then I initiated a transfer from one TiVo (.23) from TiVo at .22, this seemed to only kick traffic #s on .23.

In addition to the transfer I then started streaming Netflix to TiVo at .23.

Side note, just checked the monitor page again and my AppleTV does have its friendly name listed now.

This screen is of limited use IMHO, because it doesn't give you a cumulative data total, which the graphs do in this same section. Granted it's only for 10min I believe, but that cumulative # is very helpful at least in the diagnosis and troubleshooting that I do.

These instant #s are not as useful, IMHO, because you have to sit and stare right at them and not be doing other stuff you might want to do to create the network activity you are trying to test.

Also I definitely had data coming out of the TiVo at 192.168.1.22, and this didn't show it.

I can't really think of a reason why I'd need to use this screen again, if I need to check how fast a specific device is transferring I can do it from the graphs by streaming continuously for 10min and not having anything else active on that section of my network during that time.

PS - If you do triangle + I+ icon, does it give you the bitrate of the stream like it does while watching a disc?

 

[pulp]

Well, at least you are getting friendly hostnames. I'm just getting the assigned IP's. Yes, I did select "Display Hostnames". LOL! Nice video, you took it down after I was done. You spying on me?

 

[pulp]

If you do triangle + I+ icon, does it give you the bitrate of the stream like it does while watching a disc?

I hit "DISPLAY" on my PS3 remote control and the bitrate pops up, yes.

 

[pulp]

Your Youtube video is back!

 

[PrivateJoker]

Well, at least you are getting friendly hostnames. I'm just getting the assigned IP's. Yes, I did select "Display Hostnames". LOL! Nice video, you took it down after I was done. You spying on me?

I was editing some of the details, but I don't think I took it down. Just checked here and link worked for me, if it's still down and you need it let me know I'll triple check it.

But, long story short, yes - at least loosen that necktie up. hah!

PS - do your friendly hostnames display on your main page of the UI where you click the icon that shows connected devices?

Honestly, I don't know what gets picked up where, it's so random. Some network tools will use the netbios names, some don't, I really have no idea, no matter what I put in for some of my AirPlay speakers in their own setup it will still display something ridiculously unfriendly for it on every other part of my network. What shows up HPgiga in that traffic monitor (and is labeled as such in my DHCP assignments) shows up as plain "HP" elsewhere in the UI. I'm not assessing any of this "blame" on the Asus router, pretty much all routers I've used are the same. I probably just need to install myself a handful of servers to straighten it out. ha

 

[RMerlin]

I'm serving up via http://www.ps3mediaserver.org/ software "the.hobbit.an.unexpected.journey.2012.1080p.bluray.x264-sparks" 13 GIG of brilliance, expecting to see some massive numbers flying..... alas, nada. The I.P. that should be flying off the shelf is the last one: 192.168.1.28 That's the PS3 receiving a crapload of BW but appears to be receiving 0.

What am I forgetting, fellahs?

That page shows the traffic with the Internet. LAN traffic isn't measurable, because it's going directly through the internal switch, and never makes it through the Linux routing tables.

If you need to be able to measure LAN traffic, you would need a managed switch for that.

 

[pulp]

That page shows the traffic with the Internet. LAN traffic isn't measurable, because it's going directly through the internal switch, and never makes it through the Linux routing tables.

If you need to be able to measure LAN traffic, you would need a managed switch for that.

Well that explains.... EVERYTHING. Thank you Merlin!