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When you have a family with 10+ devices using WiFi, every now and then one of those devices or its user will misbehave and use an unacceptable quantity of our metered internet data allotment. I ...
I have an R8500. One suggestion I read elsewhere was to go to the QoS Streaming tab (under Advanced | Setup): http://x.x.x.x/QOS_down_streaming.htm [x.x.x.x is my router's LAN IP address] At there is a clickable link to "Click here to see bandwidth utilization by device and application". The URL for that link is x.x.x.x/DEV_redirect.htm and that takes me to the page http://x.x.x.x/DEV_device_R8000.htm (I am not concerned that this says R8000 instead of R8500; I am running the latest firmward version [V1.0.2.116]). That page is http://x.x.x.x/DEV_device_R8000.htm and is just the "Attached Devices" page (Advanced | Administration | Attached Devices). There are no bandwidth numbers there, just Connection Type, Device Name, IP Address, MAC Address. But - and this is totally not intuitive for reasons I don't comprehend - if you turn on Dynamic QoS and let the speed test run, that link will go to a different page, http://x.x.x.x/DEV_device_iQoS.htm. that page doesn't directly show you the bandwidth utilization but gives you a snapshot that is likely a close approximation to who your bandwidth hogs are.