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Do any routers...

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aggressor

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...have an option of turning on a WAN MB counter to see how much information is sent\recieved?

With RR starting to put download and upload caps, I am wondering how much traffic I do in a month.

Since I have a router that connects 3 computers to the internet, it becomes a little tricky 😛
I could put a download manager and install them on all 3 comps and add up the totals, but that's a big hassle to do every month, and I was wondering if there are any current routers that have an option of toggling it. Something like total WAN and total LAN usage for the month.

That would be a pretty good feature 🙁
 
Routers that have a telnet interface (such as Netgear or Zyxel for two that I know of) usually have a menu option to look at the current status, which shows current throughput as well as total data transferred. It's not perfect but it works. The data is cleared when the router is rebooted though, so a power loss would mean losing the stats. There may also be logging options in some routers, however this requires you run a server that the router can dump logs to.

If the router supports SNMP (again Netgear and Zyxel do), then you can use a product such as MRTG (Multi-Router Traffic Grapher) that keeps a constant graph and record of throughput. But you have to get it configured, and it probably uses server software that you wouldn't have installed.

You could also use NetStat Live from http://www.analogx.com on each computer. It just tracks the data transferred on the Ethernet interface of each computer, so you would have to add them all up each month, but it's simple to use.
 
Originally posted by: aggressor
The problem with that is, it would track PC to PC transfers, which would screw up everything 🙁
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Well, share through NetBEUI.

Then Use a Traffic trakker that tracks onlyTCP/IP.
 
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