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Notanetworknerd
Jan 17, 2023Follower
RBR40 - how to determine bandwidth consumption
Hello, NetGear community! I'm having a "discussion" with my ISP, who claims that I'm using a ton more data than I have historically used. But they're also claiming that they can't "see" what MAC ...
plemans
Jan 17, 2023Guru - Experienced User
There isn't an option to track "by device" bandwidth. Its one of the most common requests.
I've ran into it before to.
It happened with one of my computers got a miner installed on it and was burning through data unexpectedly.
I found it by shutting off all my devices and running groups of them for a day. Then I'd check my daily usage of data and it allowed me to narrow it to a specific group and from there it was pretty easy to determine which it was.
if you have devices on windows, you can check their data usage that is built into windows.