Network Data Hog....Mobile? Help


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ok, this company I just started working for (a vehicle repo agency) is having issues with one of their agents being a data hog and the owner is getting charged excess data charges via sprints network cards, used for the mobile laptops in the employee trucks. There are two trucks during the day, and two at night.

I'm trying to figure out how we would go about finding who is the culprit to get them to stop, and let them know they are caught red handed streaming video, or doing crap they aren't suppose to be while working.

The problem is, the serials / mac addresses on the network cards are rubbed off from being so old. So what would be the best way to go about finding this person? Would he need to call sprint, and get which IP Address is using excessive data (if they'll even release that info?). And then he'd have to get access to all 4 laptops and do a ipconfig /all to see what IP matches up? or is there an easier way to do this?

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You can try running a network packet inspection program like WireShark using some command line options so that you can maybe get it to run in the background...I'm not exactly sure how to go about this and I think it would be quite difficult to set up as these employees are out on the road, unless you could get the logs sent back to a server at regular intervals somehow.

Just some thoughts but I think this would be quite hard to track down :(

Maybe +BudMan can lend a hand?!

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He needs to find this "offending one" first... :D

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Therein lies the problem though; he does not know which network card/employee is the source of the excess charges...

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