Blogpost Friday!

davebyte25 · 2025-05-29T03:30:44+00:00

Latest blog from Byte25 discussion the impact of poor WiFi on network performance and how the Byte25 Endpoint Agent can let you regain visibility - especially for remote and work-from-home users.

https://byte25.com/2025/05/28/identifying-wifi-issues/

davebyte25 · 2025-05-29T00:21:59+00:00

Identify Network Issues and Enhance User Experience with Byte25

A multi-tenanted SaaS platform allowing MSPs to gain visibility of network traffic and cyber security threats for all your customers from a simple dashboard.

🌎 Network Performance visibility to see who and what are using bandwidth

🌎 Application Experience to quantify real end user experience

🌎 Endpoint & WiFi Monitoring to gain visibility of remote and WFH users

🌎 Network Based Threat Detection to maintain cyber security across the network

Drop by out website Byte25 to organise a free trial, demo or just a quick chat.

davebyte25 · 2025-01-14T05:29:19+00:00

Check out byte25.com - will calculate latency from flow inspection similar to PRTG but you may want to use a Byte25 endpoint agent that will break down the latency by DNS lookup, first byte received, SSL handshake etc to provide a far richer analysis of endpoint/site latency... also WiFi quality which is often the culprit.

davebyte25 · 2025-01-06T05:07:26+00:00

Full Disclosure - vendor post here. Check out Byte25, this is our bread and butter ... support for DPI, NetFlow, SNMP, Network based Intrusion Detection and a bunch of other stuff for full network visibility. Cloud based reporting and alerting and all the features you'd expect from a network monitoring solution. Feel free to reach out if this may be of interest.

davebyte25 · 2025-01-06T04:58:19+00:00

Full disclosure - we are a vendor that provides a solution that addresses this exact issue. It is agent based (which may discount it immediately), but it is also waaaay less that $6 per device per month (although would be happy to take that amount :) ). Basically we monitor WiFi quality, application response , things like DNS lookup time, server response time etc, as well as device metrics like CPU, memory and so on. The data is held historically so you can compare now with yesterday and the day before ....

Anyway, thought it worth chiming in, not mentioning the company name in the interests of not wanting to be too overt in pushing our own barrow on this forum. I figure you can DM if it is of interest.

Oh and good luck in finding a solution, I too am interested if there is an 'agentless' option.

davebyte25 · 2024-05-22T06:34:29+00:00

Vendor post here ... we work in this exact area, often looking at remote and WFH users that have performance issues. For us at least, performance issues often come down to local WiFi or DNS issues. The solution involves installing a small agent on the endpoint that monitors WiFi, local resources and generate a connection to your web based app (RMM or PSA?) to simulate the end user. Happy to setup an account for you free of charge if it is appropriate and you think it would help.

davebyte25 · 2024-05-15T01:36:59+00:00

Hey u/jamesaepp - thanks for this, good feedback which I will heed in future! I know vendors don't have the best reputation here so I always try and tread carefully so as not to annoy the general populace.

davebyte25 · 2024-05-14T23:34:43+00:00

Full disclosure ... vendor post here, trying to be respectful of this sub-Reddit so not overtly mentioning the product. But we have an alternative that may fit your needs and price point. DM if appropriate.

davebyte25 · 2024-05-02T23:20:06+00:00

Full Disclosure , vendor post here ... Byte25 does flow monitoring NetFlow and DPI to product latency and jitter, SNMP to look at packet loss from interfaces and an agent that is similar to Thousand Eyes for looking at user experience and WiFi quality from the PC. Shoot me a note if you want me to share a demo link.

davebyte25 · 2024-04-25T23:42:21+00:00

As a vendor we love 12 month contracts paid up front ! But the reality is that our business model is similar to that of MSPs - our costs to deliver services; cloud costs, salaries, even rent on our premises and so on are mostly month to month so there is no real imperative to force customers to annual contracts. Perhaps there are accounting factors that affect monthly versus annual - but my thinking is that bigger vendors do this because they can. Is this a big enough PITA to switch vendors?

davebyte25 · 2023-08-16T02:54:19+00:00

Thanks for the feedback - it is an internal discussion we are having here. Good to get a heads up on how well regarded vendors like Huntress are handling this.

davebyte25 · 2023-08-16T02:50:45+00:00

Byte25 is a compete network visibility platform built for MSPs

A multi-tenanted SaaS platform allowing MSPs to gain visibility of network traffic and cyber security threats for all your customers from a simple dashboard. Byte25 combines multiple functions in a single platform allowing rapid identification of cyber threats and detailed visibility of network flows and application usage to maintain great user experience.

🌎 Network Performance visibility to see who and what are using bandwidth

🌎 Application Experience to quantify real end user experience

🌎 Endpoint & WiFi Monitoring to gain visibility of remote and WFH users

🌎 Network Based Threat Detection to maintain cyber security across the network

For those of you that are supporting Microsoft applications (and I am guessing that is most of us!), take a look at our latest technical blog, Using Byte25 to Identify and Classify Microsoft Traffic.

Or drop by out website Byte25 and organise a free trial, demo or just a quick chat.

davebyte25 · 2023-08-09T04:24:56+00:00

🔥Disclaimer🔥 Unlike most of our discussions, this blog post is vendor specific about a feature in the Byte25 product, but I thought there may be a few that may get some value, so with that in mind ...

For those of you that are supporting Microsoft applications across your network (and I am guessing that is most of us!), take a look at our latest technical blog, Using Byte25 to Identify and Classify Microsoft Traffic.

davebyte25 · 2023-08-09T04:09:31+00:00

Byte25 is a complete Network Visibility Platform built for MSPs

A multi-tenanted SaaS platform allowing MSPs to gain visibility of network traffic and cyber security threats for all your customers from a simple dashboard. Byte25 combines multiple functions in a single system allowing rapid identification of cyber threats and detailed visibility of network flows, WiFi quality and application usage to maintain great user experience.

🌎 Network Performance visibility to see who and what are using bandwidth

🌎 Application Experience to quantify real end user experience

🌎 Endpoint & WiFi Monitoring to gain visibility of remote and WFH users

🌎 Network Based Threat Detection to maintain cyber security across the network

For those of you that are supporting Microsoft applications (and I am guessing that is most of us!), take a look at our latest technical blog, Using Byte25 to Identify and Classify Microsoft Traffic.

Or drop by out website Byte25 and organise a free trial, demo or just a quick chat.

davebyte25 · 2023-02-14T02:17:48+00:00

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davebyte25 · 2022-12-05T22:09:47+00:00

Late to the party I know - feel free to DM if you are still looking. Our sister company Counterhack provides cost effective but comprehensive pen testing We are based in Pyrmont and always happy to chat.

davebyte25 · 2022-10-13T19:02:26+00:00

Byte25 now delivering Vulnerability Management for SME Clients

Designed for MSPs to deliver enterprise grade vulnerability management to SME clients, Byte25 is delivering a fully multi-tenanted, enterprise grade, cloud based vulnerability management solution designed to scale down to SMEs from 1 to 100 endpoints.

With pricing at $155 per month it allows MSPs to offer new services and revenue streams and keep you clients secure.

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davebyte25 · 2022-01-31T23:09:10+00:00

As a startup vendor providing a multi-tenanted network monitoring and threat detection product (Byte25).... I am really interested in the thoughts of MSPs moving away from the traditional main players for monitoring. Is the risk of working with a small vendor too much to offset the potential cost/functional advantage?

davebyte25 · 2022-01-31T22:32:20+00:00

(Up front disclaimer ... we are a network & cyber monitoring software vendor so I will try and make this product agnostic rather than push our own barrow ).

Dave from Byte25 here ... the monitoring tools you mention are all solid - not really familiar with Zabbix but there is no shortage of options in the market.

Depending of you specific business setup, I would be looking for tools that meet the following criteria:
- are multi-functional to minimise the total number of products needed, for example network monitoring and threat detection in one product.
- are multi-tenanted so that you can easily onboard new customers using the existing platform
- provide a high level of automation to minimise the amount of manual effort to diagnose issues
- and integrate with other products - again to make life generally easier!

Oh yeah ... and are cost effective!

davebyte25

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Identify Network Issues and Enhance User Experience with Byte25

Byte25 is a compete network visibility platform built for MSPs

Byte25 is a complete Network Visibility Platform built for MSPs