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Feature Request: More Versatile Traffic Meter Options
I would like more versatile options on the traffic meter for the Netgear R7000 (Nighthawk) as follows: 1) Option to set limits using standard SI prefixes. Currently, the pages only has "Mbytes". I loved the old days when "megabyte" meant 2^20 bytes. But since SI standardization, you pretty much either have to hope "MB" means what you think it does or verify things. BUT if both MB and MiB were options, it would be much easier to set the actual value that you're intending to set. No muss, no fuss, no misinterpretations or bad guesses. Ideally, I would also love the option to set this in GB, GiB, TB, TiB as well. These should all be fairly simple calculations to make and could be coverted to whatever preferred type internally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte 2) Increase the max supported monitoring limit from 999999 "Mbytes" (assuming 976 GiB?) to at least 1 TiB since Comcast has raised it's cap to 1 TiB, it would make sense to increase it to *AT LEAST* support this. However, since data caps are still a hot topic politically, I think most folks (myself included) would like to see this 'future-proofed' to some degree so we don't have to ask for this again in 2-5 years when 4K streamed videos and other future bandwidth hogs become more mainstream and ISPs are forced to up the caps again. Sources: a) Comcast http://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/a-terabyte-internet-experience I am also a Comcast customer. On my Usage Meter from them (which I don't trust as much as my router's meter), it has the text at the top (e.g. "783GB remaining of 1024GB") so I believe it is actually using TiB rather than TB as mentioned in the link above. b) 4K / etc https://www.yahoo.com/tech/eight-4k-sources-you-can-watch-right-now-108829306659.html http://www.pcgamer.com/streaming-vrar-mixed-reality-games-will-be-expensive/ 3) Ability to also have separate traffic limits for individual devices (via MAC address). E.g. (device 1 can use up 300 GiB/mon, so long as it also adheres to the household monthly limits)