Manual Bandwidth Monitoring

Bandwidth Monitoring

Three related pages under Status: Bandwidth Usage (graphs and per-host history), B/W Distribution (who's using what, right now), and an internal expand-popup used by the graphs.

Everything on these pages is WAN-side only. Traffic between two devices on your own LAN is never counted — only what actually crosses your internet connection. If you've configured a DHCP alternative gateway, devices using it don't appear in these graphs at all, since their traffic never passes through this router.

Status → Bandwidth Usage

Settings:

• Enable Bandwidth Monitoring — master toggle.
• Save High Resolution 15 Minute Timeframe Data For All Hosts — finer-grained history at the cost of more storage; not recommended on routers with under 32MB RAM.
• Custom Bandwidth Monitor — an independent monitor with its own interval and reset day, useful if you want a rolling window that doesn't match your ISP's billing cycle. Changing its settings erases its own history only, not the default monitors'.

Graph display options: pick a Time Frame (15 minutes / 6 hours / 24 hours / 30 days / 1 year) and up to three simultaneous Plots, each showing either Total Bandwidth or one specific host's usage. Each graph (Download/Upload/Total) has an expand link that opens it full-size in a popup.

Bandwidth Usage Table: a tabular view with its own Display Interval (minutes/quarter-hours/hours/days/months), Display Type/Id (which host, or total), and unit choice (Auto/KB/MB/GB/TB). A Delete Data button wipes stored history for the selected monitor.

Download Bandwidth Data: exports the raw history as CSV, with columns Direction, Interval Length, Intervals Saved, IP, Interval Start, Interval End, Bytes Used.

Status → B/W Distribution

A "who's using what" view: a pie chart plus a matching table (Down / Up / Sum / Host) breaking down usage by device over a chosen time frame and interval, with the option to show each host by name or by IP.

See also

• Quotas — enforcing limits on top of what this page measures
• DHCP / Known Devices — the alternative-gateway setting that exempts devices from these graphs