The TP-LINK P9 seems a great idea, mixing mesh and powerline technology
I've asked on Amazon and a google forum about if the Google Wifi Mesh offers stats for wired and wiresless, realtime and over periods (eg: today).
Anyone recommend a mesh which shows per device usage (real time)?
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I've asked on Amazon and a google forum about if the Google Wifi Mesh offers stats for wired and wiresless, realtime and over periods (eg: today).
Seems the answer is the Google Wifi is as epic as it sounds in that department, with wired and wireless devices listed, showing their realtime data usage, or over periods of 1 day, 7 day, 30 day or 60 day!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6LgOxWAseo&t=4m5s
Just the darn price. I'll put a camelcamelcamel in to try and get the three pack on an offer...
There is the newer Nest variant of it, but that's just paying for stuff I don't want (eg: Google home assistant).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6LgOxWAseo&t=4m5s
Just the darn price. I'll put a camelcamelcamel in to try and get the three pack on an offer...
There is the newer Nest variant of it, but that's just paying for stuff I don't want (eg: Google home assistant).
I didn't find that clear, as it states specifically "wifi" - "You can see how many personal devices are connected to your Wi-Fi network in the Google Home app or the Google Wifi app."
ie: It goes out of its way to omit wired devices?!
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Expand “With the google WiFi app”, it says exactly what @Caged quoted.
So yes, it gives data for wired devices also.
“Note: The app displays details for all devices connected via Wi-Fi or connected directly to your Wifi router or point with an Ethernet cable.”
Ah yes! Thanks!
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Thanks for those...Amplifi does show live usage per device, overall and historical.
But:-
1) Does it show realtime data usage for wired devices? My friend says it only shows data for wireless items, and your screenshot seems to do the same?
2) The historical data is only for the network usage in general. ie: You can't see the usage for say an XBox over the post 24hrs?
^ The Google Wifi mesh can do that... and seems to be the only one that can!
I'd like to get the Amplifi unit, but the per device historical data earns big brownie points for me
NOTE: To add another model to the mix, the Linksys Velop seems to have no data at all along these lines!
I have mine in bridged, not routed mode and the only port live is the WAN port so that might be why. I'll plug my Xbox into the LAN port this evening and see what that shows.
Historical data isn't per device, just aggregated traffic.
Ubiquiti have a demo of the Amplifi controller on their site, it's fairly new and but doesn't have a lot of features yet, maybe more detail per device will be added in the future.
If the Google does what you need that's great, it's a good product.
**edit - tested and it says N/A like the WAN port.
https://controller.amplifi.com/site/5e9a0d75d41dd0000836b75f
Even the web demo of the controller doesn't show ethernet usage lolz.
Historical data isn't per device, just aggregated traffic.
Ubiquiti have a demo of the Amplifi controller on their site, it's fairly new and but doesn't have a lot of features yet, maybe more detail per device will be added in the future.
If the Google does what you need that's great, it's a good product.
**edit - tested and it says N/A like the WAN port.
https://controller.amplifi.com/site/5e9a0d75d41dd0000836b75f
Even the web demo of the controller doesn't show ethernet usage lolz.
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Google wifi is fantastic I have a 3 pack of the original and it just works so even though I got my hands on a 3 pack of eero pro's I have not switched over yet i really should do to give them a try. Oh and I have installed a good few 3 aand 6 packs of p9 tplinks they work fine but the app is so limited it doesnt even tell you if the backhaul is using the powerline or wifi and all they do is promise it soon. (been 4 months so far) so dont touch it unless its for set it and forget it clients.
I'm not sure any of these systems really do what the OP is actually asking for. To accurately track and save (in real time) what a connection is using is a major processing feat. Unifi has DPI which records not only what the usage was but EXACTLY what was processed. And if you turn it on, it turns a very fast router into a fairly slow router. Untangle can also do something like DPI but it needs a very hefty quad-core+ CPU to do it.
Yeah it's funny for me when we all talk about running IDPS on home routers at 1Gbps speeds on consumer grade/priced kit. I used to work selling IPS hardware appliances and to even get 1Gbps throughput with all features turned on needed a reasonably hefty appliance, and they weren't cheap!
But then we're talking about a lot more concurrent connections and sessions in those areas so it's not quite like for like
But then we're talking about a lot more concurrent connections and sessions in those areas so it's not quite like for like
The OP wanted live data usage. You can’t do that if you aren’t inspecting the traffic to/from each device.
What you capture and analyse may not be as deep as DPI but you still need to capture the data as it gets transmitted and received and potentially that’s a lot of data.
What you capture and analyse may not be as deep as DPI but you still need to capture the data as it gets transmitted and received and potentially that’s a lot of data.
If you're going to use that definition though, basic routing is also traffic inspection because it has to look at the headers. I wouldn't say that just looking at the length in an IP packet header qualifies as actually looking at the content of that packet personally, but accept it's not a standardised term.
Yes, the difference is that in what the OP wants, that data has to be processed, added up and saved away for later. By client. It’s much more than just checking the packet header and sending it in the right direction.
As a nice feature for a mesh, I'd like to see all devices on the mesh (wireless and wired), and to see realtime data usage per device, and ideally also over given periods (eg: a device's data usage over a week or month long period).
Seems only the Google Wifi Mesh has this...
1.6Ghz i5, but this is the application running to collect the interface counters, each additional interface will have barely any overhead. It doesn't take a lot to grab the interface counters, put them in a table format and have something draw a graph. Even the crappy old Peplink load balancing routers I used to work with could manage this. It's when you want things to be application aware (ip inspect, NBAR, DPI and so on) that's when you get the CPU load.
It seems like the OP has found what they need anyway.
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