Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 17:13 Post subject: Total Traffic graph data include tcp/ip/pppoe headers ?
Hi there!
Uruguayan (monopolic) Internet access company is starting to cap data traffic to every data plan they offer (including those that were left uncapped in the past), so they created a web interface for us users watch our current data up/down usage.
Whenever we reach the limit, as is usual in other countries, they will lower the available bandwidth into only about 10%.
So I am inspecting my monthly traffic usage on their webpage, and it says 316,7Gb.
When I get into my DD-WRT (latest Jun 1st 2017 firmware) on my TP-Link Archer C9 router, and watch the total traffic (STATUS - WAN) graph, It adds up to 294,85 Gb.
Since they are making us to pay for restoring full speed until the end of each month, each gb "counts" for us.
When I told them about this discrepancy, they inmediately asked me if the router's firmware took into account tcp / ip / pppoe headers on that graph, or it only added up the payload data in each packet sent or received.
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2017 16:21 Post subject: Re: Total Traffic graph data include tcp/ip/pppoe headers ?
sigmax wrote:
Hi there!
Uruguayan (monopolic) Internet access company is starting to cap data traffic to every data plan they offer (including those that were left uncapped in the past), so they created a web interface for us users watch our current data up/down usage.
Whenever we reach the limit, as is usual in other countries, they will lower the available bandwidth into only about 10%.
So I am inspecting my monthly traffic usage on their webpage, and it says 316,7Gb.
When I get into my DD-WRT (latest Jun 1st 2017 firmware) on my TP-Link Archer C9 router, and watch the total traffic (STATUS - WAN) graph, It adds up to 294,85 Gb.
Since they are making us to pay for restoring full speed until the end of each month, each gb "counts" for us.
When I told them about this discrepancy, they inmediately asked me if the router's firmware took into account tcp / ip / pppoe headers on that graph, or it only added up the payload data in each packet sent or received.
Does anyone know the answer to this question ?
Regards,
Enrique
Take a look at YAMon... it captures usage on a per device basis. I've been using it for 4+ years and the YAMon totals are very consistent with what my ISP reports (my ISP is generally less than 5% higher than YAMon).
Full disclosure, I also wrote YAMon... in part because I did not trust the numbers that my ISP was reporting. There is a feature that allows you to [semi-manually] import your ISP results so that you can see their totals in the YAMon reports.
Thank you! I am looking forward on getting YAMon 3.3.0 up and running. Unfortunately I am having some troubles with it. I just posted about it on the large (101 pages!) thread about YAMon
Thank you! I am looking forward on getting YAMon 3.3.0 up and running. Unfortunately I am having some troubles with it. I just posted about it on the large (101 pages!) thread about YAMon
