Is your Net connection slow? Ever wonder what the hell’s going down the wire? Here are five free and effective tools to diagnose network traffic issues.

The net essentials in our toolbox

Let’s explore the first three tools in our toolset. They’re powerful and easy enough for you to get an overview of what’s going on with your Net connection.

KSysGuard: view aggregate network traffic

My favorite, in all aspects, is KSysGuard. With it, you can plot network usage for all your network interfaces (even though in 99% of all cases, there’s only one network interface, and it’s named eth0). Take a look at this screenshot:

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