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Trying to monitor bandwidth with Orbi RBR40
Hey guys, I'm trying to find bandwidth monitoring options with the Orbi system. Preferrably, by device, but if that's not possible any kind of bandwidth monitoring will do. Can anyone show me where I...
I'm also looking for real-time bandwidth monitoring (or near real-time), particularly on the Internet port.
With my ISP, I have multiple levels of Internet service I can choose from, but with so many different devices, I don't really have a way of measuring real-time bandwidth for my entire network (IoT, mobile phones, gaming consoles, tables, computers, streaming devices, etc.) so I don't know if I ever exceed the 200Mbps down / 10Mbps up of the basic service...I can see aggregate, but not realtime.
It's $30 a month more for the higher server and I'd really like to know if it's worth it or a waste of money paying for something I don't actually use.
I see the /RST_statistic.htm link, but the Tx B/s and Rx B/s seem to be aggregate, not real-time. To test, I ran 6 concurrent HD streams on one computer and saw no obvious change in the Tx / Rx readings, although the Up Time and TxPkts/RxPkts did increment. (interval set at 5 seconds). Right now it's showing 5710 B/s (translates to about 45Kbps, which can't be my true network speed). I also tried a network speed test, which showed 361.4 Mbps, and then the Stats page shows 5708 B/s...actually went down, not up.
I have an old Asus RU-N66 monitor that I'm thinking of just putting in between my Orbi and my cable modem, but this feels "heavy" and I hate to add additional hardward just to monitor.
How hard would it be to add this to Orbi?
BrianG_Simi wrote:I'm also looking for real-time bandwidth monitoring (or near real-time), particularly on the Internet port.
With my ISP, I have multiple levels of Internet service I can choose from, but with so many different devices, I don't really have a way of measuring real-time bandwidth for my entire network (IoT, mobile phones, gaming consoles, tables, computers, streaming devices, etc.) so I don't know if I ever exceed the 200Mbps down / 10Mbps up of the basic service...I can see aggregate, but not realtime.
There are many bandwidth monitors to choose from, both free and for a fee.
200Mbps down / 10Mbps is referring to the amount of data you can send/receive at a determined amount of time. So the higher the bandwidth speed, the more data you can transmit at that determined amount of time. You never use up bandwidth. Your system just runs faster because you are able to send and/or receive more data.
Thanks for the reply. :-)
I guess I'll download a few and see if I can monitor the WAN port of the Orbi; I've only had success with monitoring software when using a router that explicitly supports the software, and I haven't seen anything about the Orbi that indicates that it does support real-time monitoring on the WAN port. (For example, see the graph from my Asus RT-N66U, which I've temporarily placed between the WAN port on the Orbi and the cable modem)
My ISP charges about $70/mo for tier 1 Internet (say 200Mbps down, 10Mbps up max) and about $100/mo for tier 2 Internet (say 500Mbps down, 20Mbsp up max).
If I monitor a typical week and I see that I never go over 200Mbps down max or over 10Mbps up max, then I'm wasting $30 a month paying for the 500/20 plan when the 200/10 plan meets my needs. In the example below, I max out at around just over 19Mbps down (orange) and less that 1Mbps up (blue), so if that was a typical week, then I'd definitely be fine with tier 1.
BrianG_Simi wrote:Thanks for the reply. :-)
If I monitor a typical week and I see that I never go over 200Mbps down max or over 10Mbps up max, then I'm wasting $30 a month paying for the 500/20 plan when the 200/10 plan meets my needs. In the example below, I max out at around just over 19Mbps down (orange) and less that 1Mbps up (blue), so if that was a typical week, then I'd definitely be fine with tier 1.
Again you are confused how bandwidth works. You will never go over 200/10, because your ISP caps you from going over your paid for plan speed. You would have to increase your plan speed to see if your connection speeds go up. That still won't give you what you are looking for, as it is relative to how fast you want to download data. Think of a garden hose size determining the volume of water being delivered in a specific amount time. A 1 inch hose is going to deliver more volume of water, than a 1/2 inch hose in the same amount of time. So if a 4Gb UHD movie file downloads in 15 minutes at 200Mbps, it will download 2.5 times faster at 500Gbps.
