NetU

Sharing wifi with 5 other people at home?

NetU will help you raise the awareness about each others consumption. And, indirectly, let you perceive if there are devices with some crazy spyware/spambot/virus installed, consuming your entire bandwidth by silently downloading the Internet, leaving nothing for the others.

Settings

You have to configure the plugin before using.

• Router: Your router type (must be one of the supported types);
• Host: IP Address to access the router;
• User: Username to access the router;
• Password: Password to access the router;
• MaxBw: the maximum bandwidth for your Internet connection in Mbits/second (ex: 100).

Clean settings

Example settings

• This is using the TEST router. This is meant to test the plugin

Chart

With the correct settings, click the Save button and you should get a nice pie chart depicting your local network Internet usage.

Examples

Implementation details

NetU is a very simple Chrome plugin that talks directly to the Wifi router to collect the download statistics and shows it in a nice pie chart.

How to install

You have to clone this repo and download the dependencies using npm.

To do this, in a shell, execute the following commands:

$ git clone https://github.com/mmr/netu
$ cd netu
$ npm install

Now, to install the plugin in Chrome, do this:

1. Go to chrome://extensions;
2. Mark the Developer mode checkbox;
3. Click on Load unpacked extension;
4. Go to the netu directory you've created;

You are all set! :)

Just click the neat icon that appeared on the right side of your address bar and configure the plugin. See Settings.

Technologies used:

• NPM
• D3
• D3Pie

Supported routers:

• TP-LINK TL-WR941ND

Your router is not in the list? Help us! Send a pull request with some code to support your router.

It is easy!

Just take a lot at the current implementations