Monitor Network Traffic Windows - 11

Something on your Windows 11 machine is quietly eating your bandwidth. Time to become a detective.

You download Wireshark. It’s like putting a wiretap directly on your network card. You select your Wi-Fi adapter, click "Start," and suddenly see every packet: DNS queries, ARP requests, a weird SYN packet to an unknown port 4444. monitor network traffic windows 11

You click the tab, then "Ethernet" (or Wi-Fi). You see a graph—a blue wave of send/receive activity. It’s spiking hard, even though you’re doing "nothing." Something on your Windows 11 machine is quietly

Now your network is quiet. The graph is flat. You click "Join Meeting" with confidence. It’s like putting a wiretap directly on your network card

You need more detail. Type "Resource Monitor" into the Start menu. Open it.

You also see a new "unidentified" device on your local network. Wait, is that your roommate’s phone or a neighbor’s hacked camera? GlassWire shows you each device’s traffic. You block the unknown MAC address.

Overkill for most.