Monitor bandwidth on personal network [duplicate]

Solution 1:

Since you are looking for something dead simple, I would suggest just installing the network monitoring widgets in windows 7.

http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=86656dc5-b0fe-489d-b115-44a76e050f63

This is not the best solution, but in terms of simplicity, can't get much easier than this.

Alternatively I would suggest getting a different router and installing DD-WRT on it. In this scenario you can view a lot of network information directly on the router for all network devices.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index