i need a bandwidth monitor
 

do you know of a program that will monitor bandwidth and clearly tell me my upload rate and download rate?

ocassionaly my game server starts lagging and i want to see if it's my ISP or if something is draining me such as being hotlinked from

Will ntop suffice?

http://www.ntop.org

If not you should search on freshmeat and sourceforge there are many of those kinds of programs. In my opinion ntop is one of the better ones.

what game server are u running?

TFC

hey your link is dead :(

It's not dead when I click on it. But here is a mirror link

http://ntop.ethereal.com/ntop.html

Try going here http://www.2wire.com/support/index.html and clicking on "bandwidth meter"

Check this out:

http://www.mrtg.org

You can graph anything!

i use iptraf - text based program though but i think it gives accurate reading in real time.