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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...
Xfinity for me too. 1.2TB is a LOT of data in a month, and with no help from Netgear I couldn’t figure it out. I ended up loading up WireShark on my fastest macbook pro and “listened” to the WiFi on and off for a few days to find the nodes with the biggest bandwidth utilization, talking to off-network addresses. Nothing really stood out as the ultimate culprit, but at least I learned a few things. I also ended up buying a q-linx LanProbe network tap and a thunderbolt gig-e adapter to do the same for hardwired devices.
I should mention, I have over 80 devices with individual IP addresses on my network. And I never found the smoking gun device, probably because I didn’t commit my laptop to 24-hour service for the entire month.
No less, anyone with hours and hours to wrestle through the detailed documentation and hardware gadgeteering could do load up WireShark (it’s free) and buy a LanProbe (it’s not at all free), and figure things out for themselves. Or, Netgear could update their code to simply click off a counter as each byte came through from each connected IP address, and present that counter to the administrator when they turn on the “individual bandwidth monitoring” option. Very little processor required, just a little memory and a little code. Ignore broadcast, add an option to view external conversations. No, I don’t know the Orbit code base but after 30+ years in the software industry, I can assure you it’s not that hard.
How about it guys?