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I've been searching the forums and the Internet in general, today, as I have gotten my first notice from Comcast that, lo, I am over my 1 Terabyte limit, this month. It has been inching toward that m...
ericmblog
Feb 01, 2019Fledgling
This really is a must have. We had a device uploading way to much data (a smart camera that wigged out it looks like), but because of the non-existant tools on Orbi it's incredibly hard to diagnose these problems. We only noticed because we were nearing our comcast cap, and I can only assume what the actual problem was because there is no detailed information.
I love orbi's wifi, but the management is a joke. I'm thinking about putting a cheap OpenWRT router between the modem and the Orbi, and putting the Orbi just in AP mode, until Netgear can get their act together on this one.
Either build in proper monitoring (I can't even see current bandwidth rates anywhere!) or at least enable build SNMP for more advanced users.