Network data monitoring

[AXXEL]

I want to see my home networks internet data usage on a daily and monthly basis, without using any 3rd party firmware.

I looked up many routers feature descriptions and they mention things like traffic monitoring and such but are vague as to what that means.

Would appreciate any input as to decent mid level wireless routers capable of this.

 

[remixedcat]

http://www.paessler.com has something called PRTG that has detailed monitoring, however a probe has to be installed on each node. However, it is very nice software and it is cheaper then some other solutions. You can use it free for 10 sensors.

 

[kanewolf]

Use a smart switch (such as GS108T) with a single uplink to the internet. Capture the packet counts from the switch using SNMP. I have a script that runs on a Linux box that does that ever 15 min. and saves the delta with a timestamp to a CSV file for analysis in Excel. This approach won't capture wireless if you use the ISP router as a wireless access point, but if you use the ISP router without wireless and a separate AP then all counts can be captured.

 

[stevech]

My WiFi router, as do others, keeps a cumulative count of bytes in, bytes out. Not by user. Not reset each day. But the numbers are there if you wish.

To get fancier, I think you have to go into the WISP world of products and spend some money. Or write your own software/scripts to pull the counts from your router daily and store into a spreadsheet.

 

[AXXEL]

My WiFi router, as do others, keeps a cumulative count of bytes in, bytes out. Not by user. Not reset each day. But the numbers are there if you wish.

To get fancier, I think you have to go into the WISP world of products and spend some money. Or write your own software/scripts to pull the counts from your router daily and store into a spreadsheet.

That's what I am looking for. What router do you have?

I want the cumulative report like yours.

I have been using an old linksys with tomato and it gave me all those reports but I wanted an updated N router and didn't want to deal with flashing a new router and risk bricking it.

I actually went out shopping today and found a netgear wndr4500 that offers this feature. Only been running a few hours but am pretty happy with it so far. But which router do you have?

 

[stevech]

At home and at work, I use Cradlepoint. They serve the M2M market, not the consumer market.

But I suspect that many WiFi routers keep a count of bytes in/out.
Cradlepoint also supports syslog, so you can use any syslog UDP client to catch all the internal events and statuses. SNMP too, as I recall.

I have an older 11g/n Cradlepoint for home use. I don't need more than 11n/20MHz. I got this one like-new, on eBay.
Curious thing about CradlePoint.. most all their WiFi routers and travel routers use the same firmware baseline, unlike consumer WiFi.
One travel router I have in a lab at work has run a year without rebooting, bridging Verizon EV-DO to WiFi and ethernet.

 

[evetsmd]

Bandwidth Monitor

I'm a little late to this thread but my solution was to change the firmware in my E4200 and use "Tomato by Shibby 1.28" a google ill easily find it. This firmware using snmp, offers a very good reporting environment for the bandwidth u use.
I've had it up and running for about 2 months now and no problems (that I can see) - now having said that, I have a new DS213 coming today...hopefully it won't be a problem with this firmware.

 

[AXXEL]

I'm a little late to this thread but my solution was to change the firmware in my E4200 and use "Tomato by Shibby 1.28" a google ill easily find it. This firmware using snmp, offers a very good reporting environment for the bandwidth u use.
I've had it up and running for about 2 months now and no problems (that I can see) - now having said that, I have a new DS213 coming today...hopefully it won't be a problem with this firmware.

I actually went and bought a Netgear Wndr4500. It does monitor traffic and give me a report of usage. So far I like the router.

I was using an old wrt54 flashed with tomato. I really liked tomato but my router was outdated, as it was a G.

Do you know if my netgear wndr4500 can be flashed with tomato? If the factory firmware in it has many hiccups, I may go back to tomato. I just worry about bricking it, which is always a risk.

 

[evetsmd]

Do you know if my netgear wndr4500 can be flashed with tomato? If the factory firmware in it has many hiccups, I may go back to tomato. I just worry about bricking it, which is always a risk.

No idea about dr4500 but I'm sure u can check the list of compatible routers - google Tomato Firmware.

I know the Shibby version of Tomato was what worked with my E4200.

good luck!