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hi this is Ben with make you so calm today we're gonna show you some tools and methods to figure out what's using bandwidth on your network now if you're not familiar Ben with essentially refers to the amount of network traffic that your network is capable of handling so even with a fast connection if you have several devices that are using a lot of bandwidth by streaming Netflix downloading files and doing other work like that you might experience slowdown on your network so that's why our first tip with bandwidth usage is if your network seems slow all of a sudden the first tip is a little low-tech but you should consider what's going on on your network perhaps what your kids are playing a video game online on their console maybe you're using BitTorrent to download something maybe you have someone streaming Netflix and a high-resolution on their TV or phone think about those use cases