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Cadman74
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Jul 15, 2019

Nighthawk App Question (R6900v2)

Was fiddling around with the Nighthawk app and went to my traffic meter, but I think it might be a little off. It says "Data transferred (in MB)". Last month's usage hits around 343890.66.

Does this mean I used nearly 344 GB last month? That seems like a whole lot? We stream, but I wouldn't have thought it would be THAT much. According to the "Fountain of all knowledge" (aka Google), the average household uses under 200 GB per month.

I also had the thought that it was also measuring internal network usage (not just internet usage), which would make a little more sense since I do regular backups and stream local media from the USB on the Nighthawk. If local streaming numbers are included in that number, 344 MB seems to be a little more believable.

Anyway, just wanted some professional opinions on this apparent high data transfer.

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  • DexterJB's avatar
    DexterJB
    NETGEAR Moderator
    Jul 24, 2019

    Hi Cadman74, welcome to the community! That value is 343,890.66 MB (roughly 344MB) since 1000 MB is equal to 1 GB. The value it measures is the Internet traffic that comes through the WAN port.

     

    Dexter

    • schumaku's avatar
      schumaku
      Guru
      Jul 25, 2019

      DexterJB not convinced your interpretation is correct. The data on the App is already shown in MB, and there is no strange "US-style" (sorry!) delimiter for thousands, (E3, E6, E9, ...) - I would have complained. Or do you think that the R6900v2 does return different values (and formats)? Probably yet another App API and router bug?

       

      This is a different router model (R9000) showing 3942.0 MB (3.850 GB) down and 463.97 MB (0.453 GB) up - what is feasible (it's a 4G connected unit somwhere up in the Swiss mountains):