> However, from that data, can I find out not only what websites they are > visiting, but how long they are spending on each website?
Considering that you only get a packet through the router when the user does "something" that causes an Internet request to pass from the user's PC to the Internet, I don't see how you reasonably expect to find out "how long they are spending on each site." For example, I could open 10 browser windows right now, open a different site for each one, and then not click anywhere for quite a while as I devour each page's content... or perhaps I left those windows open for an hour while I was doing something else, then came back to the web for more browsing. Unless you were monitoring my individual PC and seeing that I am spending 50% of my day in Firefox/IE, you wouldn't really know how long I spent on a particular site (though you can make some inferences about it based on URLs visited and the timing of those hits). The only way to really do that would involve installing software on the user's PC. I suggest RescueTime if it is a Windows box, and put "OK for work" sites in the app's whitelist. This is a great app and can really give you a lot of interesting information about where you *really* spend your time. Having said that, I think RescueTime is primarily targeted at individual users, not to be used as spyware to monitor one's employees, so I'm unsure how well the software would work for that particular purpose. There must be good PC spyware you could use for this purpose, but I can't recommend anything specifically. Wayne --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
