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Nighthawk R7000 Traffic Meter Monthly Limit Increase
Please update the Traffic Meter feature for the Nighthawk R7000 to have an increased Monthly Limit that can account into the Tbytes. Comcast as an ISP has began to implement data caps at 1024Mb which equates to 1048576Mbytes but the Monthly Limit field only allows me to enter 104857Mbytes, missing the last digit which is significantly less than the data cap. Given that Comcast is monitoring the traffic it should be available to impose limits and monitor traffic independent of Comcast. It is very important this feature be added. Currently running V1.0.7.10_1.2.3 firmware. This was mentioned in the forums and it was suggested that this be submitted at this location in that post. See below; https://community.netgear.com/t5/VPN-Firewalls/Bugfix-Request-Increase-maximum-monthly-limit-for-Traffic/m-p/1185320#M6496 Original Post "This in regards to the Traffic Meter monitoring function of the SRX5308 VPN Firewall. However this would apply to any device in Netgear's product lineup that monitors the amount of IP traffic per month. Currently the traffic meter can set a monthly traffic limit of up to a maximum of 256000 MB (~250 GB). However, this is insufficient for those who are using Comcast as an ISP where the limit is set to 1 Terabyte (1024 Gb). Request that the montly traffic limit setting be adjustable in the Terabyte range." Reply "I advise you to post your concern as feature request in the Idea Exchange Board for Business here. Be reminded that the community members who will give kudos to your idea will help as the development team will be reviewing the post that has the most kudos and it might be considered to be added on the future functionality of the product."increase traffic meter limit to terabyte
Currently the traffic meter can set a monthly traffic limit of up to a maximum of 999999 MB. However, this is insufficient for those who are using Comcast as an ISP where the limit is set to 1 Terabyte (1024 Gb). Request that the montly traffic limit setting be adjustable in the Terabyte range."
Traffic Meter Units Displayed & By Device?
TWC is saying that I have used 693+ GB this month (9/1 to 9/20) compaired to 308 for the previous month. How the heck do I convert the data reported in the traffic meter and is there a report with more detail by device available? Do you think that this is inclusive of LAN traffic? Firmware Version - V1.01.15Feature 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)
