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larryredskin
Jan 07, 2020Follower
monitoring bandwith by device
We recently went way over our limit of data for our home internet. We don't know how this happened. We have 35 devices in our home connected to the internet. Is there a way to monitor each devices...
CrimpOn
Jan 07, 2020Guru - Experienced User
No, and yes. The Orbi has no capability to monitor usage by device. However, an enterprising user found a way to do that by putting another router before the Orbi that IS able to produce this information. Message 16 in this post describes what he did:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Can-I-track-data-usage-per-device/m-p/1561664
(I have no idea if solving this problem is worth $133.)