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RE: High broadband usage - why?



One issue is that SM does not log Wifi traffic from the router itself;
only from a wired separate WAP. Bit annoying....

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Phil Harris
Sent: 02 April 2013 20:44
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] High broadband usage - why?

Yup - looking at
http://www.draytek.co.uk/support/kb_vigor_portmirror.html
it shows how to set up a 2820 to use it so it looks like there's your
solution. :-D

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Mark Gardner
Sent: 02 April 2013 20:40
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] High broadband usage - why?

Nope. I have used it with a 2820 and a 2850

Cheers
Mark

On 2 Apr 2013, at 20:38, "Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

> No idea if it's worth seeing if this would work on your router - I
> suspect that it's possibly restricted to the Non-ADSL routers
though...
>
> http://www.draytek.co.uk/products/SmartMonitor.html
>
> Phil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf

> Of Tim Hawes
> Sent: 02 April 2013 20:17
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] High broadband usage - why?
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have a bit of a puzzler with our home ADSL connection. We previously

> were on a package with a 10GB download cap which we just managed to
> stay
under.
> A few months ago we upgraded to a 40GB cap package and in March just
> gone, including a 10 day holiday away, we used 38-odd GB.
>
> I re-set the traffic monitor on my router yesterday (or perhaps Sunday
> eve) and already this month we've used over 4GB !!!
> Last night 14 sessions were "active" although with next to
no
> bandwidth consumed, but why aren't they silent.
>
> We don't have an online TV/movies subscription and don't do anything
> "fancy"; mostly web browsing and email. The kids do like
iPlayer and
> youtube, but can these really be responsible for the high download
usage?
>
> How can I monitor what is eating up the download allowance? Ideally
> something that can report usage by website by device, so I can
> determine whether it's an iTouch, desktop PC, a rouge device
> interloping on my allowance, or a dodgy application that is chatting
> way
too much.
> And of course, ideally free and easy to set up ;-)
>
> Router is a Vigor 2820n if that helps with any solutions.
>
> All thoughts welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Tim.
>
>
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