AC5300 Enhanced Traffic Monitoring..Where??

[dougm]

I have the RT-AC5300, with Merlin 384.10_2. I want to see which hosts on my network are consuming how much bandwidth every month. I enabled the Enhanced Traffic Monitoring on Tools>Other Settings as described here. I have a 1 GB USB drive inserted to store the data. I enabled Yes for both options to Create the data files, and after I hit Apply they went back to No.

But where do I go to view the results? It's not on the Traffic Analyzer page, that's where you have to sell your soul and first born child to Trend Micro (Yuck). I saw some other screen shot of an RT68 and they have a link on the sidebar that says Traffic Monitor, but that's not showing up for me.

What am I missing? I can't find out what this is actually doing. Do I actually have to SSH in and look at the data files via the command line? Are there any other ways to do what I want on this router without using Trend Micro?

Thank you

 

[RMerlin]

Traffic Analyzer -> Traffic Monitor. Pages are in the dropdown menu to the right of the page.

 

[dougm]

Gosh, that was too obvious, thanks. Is there a way to get the hostnames to show up rather than the IP addresses? All of my IP addresses are assigned by DHCP reservations by MAC.

 

[RMerlin]

Gosh, that was too obvious, thanks. Is there a way to get the hostnames to show up rather than the IP addresses? All of my IP addresses are assigned by DHCP reservations by MAC.

It's a checkbox on the Monitoring page. It requires your router to know the client's hostname however, so it must be using the router's DHCP.

 

[dougm]

Yes, my router has all the hosts assigned static reservations by their Mac address in the LAN/DHCP settings page. But I am still just getting IP addresses in the list even with the Show Hostnames box checked.