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is there a way I can see which users are online when I am on line?

Hi
There are Millions of users online every moment. Which ones you want to see?
If you are on a specific BBS, the members that are On might be listed, and
you can switch On a setting to show the list
If you want to see a specific group of personal friends there has to be some
application that looks for these specific people, like IM friends groups.
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"curt1945" <> wrote in message
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> is there a way I can see which users are online when I am on line?

I am just talking abut the people on my network, home network. I know it
sounds funny, but with kids in the house, it is nice to see who is on line.
I know where I used to work, we could do it.

"Jack (MVP-Networking)." wrote:

> Hi
> There are Millions of users online every moment. Which ones you want to see?
> If you are on a specific BBS, the members that are On might be listed, and
> you can switch On a setting to show the list
> If you want to see a specific group of personal friends there has to be some
> application that looks for these specific people, like IM friends groups.
> Jack (MVP-Networking).
>
> "curt1945" <> wrote in message
> news:ABDDE649-0C82-4870-95D8-...
> > is there a way I can see which users are online when I am on line?
>
>
>

Hi

Your home network is probably the classical peer-to peer Network.

To know who is on line you need to look at a central place that all the
traffic flows through. The only place in regular peer-to-peer Network is
probably the Cable/DSL Router. Most Routers have a menu that informs which
computers are having an active IP you might be able to log to your Router
(if you use one) and take an occasional look.

Otherwise, it can be done by installing special "spying" software on each
computer. The software allows you to monitor from your computer the
activities of other computers..

You have to take into consideration that if the users are computer savvy
they would find ways to disable it. So, YMMV.

Example, http://www.softactivity.com/employee-monitoring.asp

Jack (MVP-Networking).



"curt1945" <> wrote in message
news:E6B398F2-CFD2-4301-953F-...
>I am just talking abut the people on my network, home network. I know it
> sounds funny, but with kids in the house, it is nice to see who is on
> line.
> I know where I used to work, we could do it.
>
> "Jack (MVP-Networking)." wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> There are Millions of users online every moment. Which ones you want to
>> see?
>> If you are on a specific BBS, the members that are On might be listed,
>> and
>> you can switch On a setting to show the list
>> If you want to see a specific group of personal friends there has to be
>> some
>> application that looks for these specific people, like IM friends groups.
>> Jack (MVP-Networking).
>>
>> "curt1945" <> wrote in message
>> news:ABDDE649-0C82-4870-95D8-...
>> > is there a way I can see which users are online when I am on line?
>>
>>
>>

Jack (MVP-Networking). <> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Your home network is probably the classical peer-to peer Network.
>
> To know who is on line you need to look at a central place that all the
> traffic flows through. The only place in regular peer-to-peer Network is
> probably the Cable/DSL Router. Most Routers have a menu that informs which
> computers are having an active IP you might be able to log to your Router
> (if you use one) and take an occasional look.

This only works if a DHCP server is enabled the guest computer is set up
to acquire its ip-address from the server.

> Otherwise, it can be done by installing special "spying" software on each
> computer. The software allows you to monitor from your computer the
> activities of other computers..

Better to connect a hub just before the cable/dsl modem and connect to
the hub with a cable and a computer running a packet sniffer like
Ethereal.

> You have to take into consideration that if the users are computer savvy
> they would find ways to disable it. So, YMMV.

No way a with packet sniffer.

There is a free program called AirSnare, you might take a look at it I
believe it will do what you want,
http://home.comcast.net/~jay.deboer/airsnare/


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"curt1945" <> wrote in message
news:E6B398F2-CFD2-4301-953F-...
>I am just talking abut the people on my network, home network. I know it
> sounds funny, but with kids in the house, it is nice to see who is on
> line.
> I know where I used to work, we could do it.
>
> "Jack (MVP-Networking)." wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> There are Millions of users online every moment. Which ones you want to
>> see?
>> If you are on a specific BBS, the members that are On might be listed,
>> and
>> you can switch On a setting to show the list
>> If you want to see a specific group of personal friends there has to be
>> some
>> application that looks for these specific people, like IM friends groups.
>> Jack (MVP-Networking).
>>
>> "curt1945" <> wrote in message
>> news:ABDDE649-0C82-4870-95D8-...
>> > is there a way I can see which users are online when I am on line?
>>
>>
>>