| Do any routers have bandwidth stats built in? I have read that netgear routers have bandwidth stats but have found no details about it in netgears manuals online. Does it give monthly totals?
I was using a WRT54G with tomato but it died replaced it with a Asus RT-N16 with toastman tomato and it has not been as reliable have to be un-pluged every 2 months because the wireless stops working hard wired still works. A reboot dosen't fix it.
I don't know if it's the router i didn't leave asus firmware on it long enough to find out.
I would like to replace it with something else. Was thinking netgear or asus since belkin is doing the linksys stuff soon. |
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| have you tryed looking in two routers the support dd-wrt it has a grate built-in bandwidth meter in it. i use it with linsys E2000. works fine for me for the job i need it for. have a cap on my internet so have to watch it myself with three users. so the may be what you are looking for. just look on dd-wrt.com when site for there support routers and they have a big list there of router they do support. |
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 msmisfit
join:2004-09-13
Lawrenceville, GA
kudos:2 | reply to David9726
My Netgear 3800 router has a traffic meter which works fine for my use. I like that it leaves your last month's stats for comparison each month.
I'm not sure whether it uses DD-WRT or Tomato though. |
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I would put the latest Shibby build on your RT-N16. Add a USB thumb drive to save the bandwidth stats on. This gets around saving it in the limited NVRAM space. Set it to save the data once an hour to the thumb drive. This way in case you loose power or pull the power, you should not loose more than an hours worth of data. It will also save the data prior to rebooting. When you reboot the router, it automatically reloads the save data.
I don't use the wireless in mine so can not tell you how stable it is. But you can set the router to automatically reboot its self at 5 in the morning once a week or every day if you want. |
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msmisfit
join:2004-09-13
Lawrenceville, GA
kudos:2 | reply to David9726
said by David9726:Do all netgear routers have that now?
I'm not sure, but their next router after mine the 4500 has one. I would just check the spec's to make sure.  |
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I'm having great success with my RT-N16 running Victek's Tomato firmware. »victek.is-a-geek.com. I'm using version RAF1.28.9006 MIPSR2_RAF K26 USB VPN-NOCAT.
The router has been up for 523 days without a reboot... since the day I installed it. Yes, that's no typo: 523 days. I use it for wifi (802.11n).
The stats are great of course, since the firmware is based on Tomato. |
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join:2001-07-16
Dartmouth, NS
kudos:3 | reply to David9726
I use a zyxel USG router logs to follow...... |
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join:2001-07-16
Dartmouth, NS
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Interface Status & Summary | 
Port Stats Graphical View | 
Port Stats Grid View | 
General Log |
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join:2001-07-16
Dartmouth, NS
kudos:3 | reply to David9726
Traffic stats By Interface and Host IP | 
Session Monitor By Destinatinon IP | 
Session Monitor by Source IP | 
Session Monitor by Users |
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AnavSarcastic Llama? Naw, Just AcerbicPremium
join:2001-07-16
Dartmouth, NS
kudos:3 | reply to David9726
Bandwidth Stats App Patrol | 
Protocol Stats App Patrol | 
Traffic Stats by Inteferace by WebSite Hits | 
Traffic Stats by Interface by Service Ports |
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Alt-firmware modded devices -- of which several have been mentioned in this thread -- can do this.
Also not that hard to do with SNMP, and/or NetFlow / xFlow -- typically at the enterprise-level
this is what you'd be using to monitor this with.
Guessing where this question came from is you have an ISP that is real anal about not going over
a certain bandwidth cap, OP?
Regards |
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