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Anyway to live monitor the traffic?
I want to see the live traffic on my r7000, to see if it has too much load on it or there is breathing area to run more things. I am limited to about 40Mbps , so I don't want to start a download when...
Appleuser2000 wrote:No, I have not. I heard QoS tempers with connectivity giving less than desired results. I even disabled WMM.
I am just looking to see Mbps coming and going out through the router. So If I have 3 devices each using 5Mbps , I want to see a graph or monitoring tool that reads "15Mbps⬇ 0Mbps⬆"
I do understand. Can't be done as far as I know, at least not with Traffic Meter.
QoS can slow down the Internet, but generally on speeds over 100Mbps. It works best in the situation you have, streaming and game play get the most bandwidth so they can work better. Might want to give it a try, it might automatically do what you want and remove the worry about slowing down PC doing some things.
What you want has been requested before, see https://community.netgear.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-For-Home/realtime-bandwidth-monitoring-by-device/idi-p/1382117. I think some of it has been done on the R9000, or other routers, even the Netgear Commercial ones (cost more).
I did find this, https://www.howtogeek.com/222740/how-to-the-monitor-the-bandwidth-and-data-usage-of-individual-devices-on-your-network/, which appears to be what you want?
There are quite a few threads here on this, Goog;e 'netgear traffic meter by device' to see them, but the 'solved' are not really.
Appleuser2000, I am not sure what you are looking for? "live monitor" to me meant the TCP/IP packets going in and out. Seems you want 'Traffic Metering', but only at a specific point in time?
That is you want to know, by device, at any given time, which device is using 'how much' of your 40Mbps d/l capability?
I don't know of a way to do that?
It might be possible on some routers? Newer NG routers I think have a better Traffic Meter function that breaks it down by device or program, which I think the RAX series does. Possible a 3rd party f/w does as well.
However, the situation you describe might be best handled by enabling QoS with your ISP speed. It is DYNAMIC in that you can't specify who gets priority. The router has built-in decision making. Video and game play usually gets priority and d/l'ing the least.
Have you tried that?
No, I have not. I heard QoS tempers with connectivity giving less than desired results. I even disabled WMM.
I am just looking to see Mbps coming and going out through the router. So If I have 3 devices each using 5Mbps , I want to see a graph or monitoring tool that reads "15Mbps⬇ 0Mbps⬆"
Appleuser2000 wrote:No, I have not. I heard QoS tempers with connectivity giving less than desired results. I even disabled WMM.
I am just looking to see Mbps coming and going out through the router. So If I have 3 devices each using 5Mbps , I want to see a graph or monitoring tool that reads "15Mbps⬇ 0Mbps⬆"
I do understand. Can't be done as far as I know, at least not with Traffic Meter.
QoS can slow down the Internet, but generally on speeds over 100Mbps. It works best in the situation you have, streaming and game play get the most bandwidth so they can work better. Might want to give it a try, it might automatically do what you want and remove the worry about slowing down PC doing some things.
What you want has been requested before, see https://community.netgear.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-For-Home/realtime-bandwidth-monitoring-by-device/idi-p/1382117. I think some of it has been done on the R9000, or other routers, even the Netgear Commercial ones (cost more).
I did find this, https://www.howtogeek.com/222740/how-to-the-monitor-the-bandwidth-and-data-usage-of-individual-devices-on-your-network/, which appears to be what you want?
There are quite a few threads here on this, Goog;e 'netgear traffic meter by device' to see them, but the 'solved' are not really.
well, thanks for your time for helping me out. Seems like a common sense feature to include in a modern router though... maybe it taxes the device or something.