I’ve been getting repeated emails from my ISP about “exceeding my bandwidth cap” and they feel very incorrect.

My current router is a Cisco RV260, and it doesn’t have a great way of tracking traffic. (There’s a port traffic screen that does give tx/rx bytes, but no way to see any date ranges).

Is there anything out there that can give an accurate account of Internet traffic? It would be nice if I could see destination domain/IPs, just for kicks and giggles, but an overall traffic count is all I really need.

Thanks!

  • Brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Are you asking for new router suggestions? Or you meant bandwidth monitoring for just one device on your network?

    That sort of info is best recorded at the router level. pfSense has packages you can install that record bandwidth usage & are useful for that. Not sure about OPNsense but I think (?) that would have something similar.

    • Naate@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m intending to upgrade to a pfSense router and some other switch in the future. This is just supposed to be a temporary-ish investigation into the potential fuckery coming from my ISP.

      • towerful@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I used to use pfSense. It’s great.
        I recently moved to opnSense… And I think it’s better.
        Both are good, both are BSD, both have similar settings (tutorials are mostly interchangeable)… But opnSense just does it better, updates more frequently, nicer UI etc.

        If you are talking to yours ISP, it’s worth getting a bridge modem, and settings details for your own router.
        This modem will turn “isp” into ethernet, then your opnSense/pfSense can make the actual connection. This means it gets the public IP directly.