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XerxesFehrnah
Sep 29, 2017Follower
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New Idea
Provide usage data over a month for individual devices
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 ...
ed-m
Aug 16, 2018Aspirant
I also want better information about data usage. I want to know if my ISP is giving me the bandwidth they say they are (I can run a speed test but don't if there are some other devices on the network that are using bandwidth and affecting the speedtest result). I also want to be able to look for rogue/compromised devices and want to be able to see individual device usage. (Unlike a previous poster, I do have in-home servers that are directly accessed).
So better data usage and management for the router and individual devices is a must...... so much so that I'm considering limiting the ORBI to AP functiuonality only and front ending the RBR50 with a different router that offers better data usage reporting and management.