Bandwidth meter for router?

In light of the Comcast being overt about their monthly limits, I've been experimenting for a few weeks with meters that log my bandwidth.
I like Net Meter but it falls short of what I need:
1) monitor all bandwidth on network. So i guess this would have to mean at the router?
2) when I stream movies or other files with a laptop on my network from my main pc, it logs it as bandwidth even though it's internal..this skews my bandwidth tracking as using more than I have.

Any suggestions on how to fix the above and accurately monitor bandwidth usage on a network with multiple computers?

 

I'll be honest. I have replaced my router with Smoothwall. Its a small Linux distro that runs on a PC. That, plus two NICs produces a wonderful little gateway machine. It tracks all my bandwith on both a per period (month, week, day, hour) basis and an instantanious basis. (Exactly what am I doing this moment.) It keeps current and past months records at a glance and I'm sure I could write a script, or modify it (as it is open source, and Linux) to provide more or different detail.

Also, the stats are "As a whole" and per inside interface (IP) so you can track back if you have a significant usage, you can trace to which system.

 

BitMeter shows stats and can be customized.......take a look at http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=bitmeter2

 

Could you post a link to a source you trust to download NetMeter from, please?

 

http://www.metal-machine.de/readerror/

 

Thanks all for the replies.
I have a few solutions that I'm going to try that work at the router level that monitors bandwidth from all computers on the network. I'll post back with some results.

 

If your other PCs are not directly connected to your PC and are accesing the router via a switch, you will have to individually install the monitoring utility and then add up the use.