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DIscrepancy Between Orbi Traffic Monitor and ISP's Reported Bandwidth Usage
Is anyone else noticing a discrepancy between what the Orbi Traffic Meter reports versus what your ISP (specifically Comcast) is reporting? Before I complain to Comcast I was hoping to see if anyone ...
It does appear to be working as expected with the latest firmware, or close enough within fault tolerance. Monthly, Yesterday, and Today records seem to fall within acceptable expectation.
April:
Orbi - 610GB
ISP - 588GB
Tap - 540GB
I expect the Orbi to have the highest record since it should actively track every bit of data running through it at full line rate.
I expect the Tap to have the lowest record since it it limited to USB 2.0 Bus speed (Raspberry Pi) and therefore will not fully record any traffic exceeding ~300mbit/sec.
I expect the ISP record to sit between the Orbi and Tap as a general guideline due to the previously mentioned reasoning as well as being on an expected slight delay.
I did perform the factory reset upon finishing this latest set of firmware updates. I"m going to continue monitoring through this month, but April will be the best test period given the limited visibility into Comcast's metering.
I've also acquired a network tap to install between modem and router and going to run Wireshark on another device (laptop or Raspberry Pi) for an additional view into bandwidth consumption; hopefully this sheds further light on the situation.
Ok sounds good. Please let us know your findings when you have them collected.
FYI about your ISP modem:
Funny you mention this.... I just so happened to look at mine last night and realzed all historical information was gone. I have not done any reset etc. The only signficant thing done has been firmware update to .44.
Anyone else see those logs get zapped on FW updates?
My data was also zapped, but not sure if it was from the firmware update or the factory reset I performed after updating.
