Monitor Internet Usage

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Hi,

Looking for advice on how to see what is using my internet connection, there is around 10+ devices (smartphones, tablets & 2x PC) connected in the evening and between 8pm & 10pm 1 of them look to be hammering my connection looking at my tbb graph. (connection feels sluggish but speedtests & ping are fine)

Noticed this a few weeks ago but stopped after installing a Asus RT-AC68U router. (Traffic Analyzer shows nothing in router)

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If you are convinced one of your devices is using your connection automatically between 8-10pm but do not know which one, why not just turn off one device each night until you have narrowed down which device it is.

Other than that if you have a decent router that should have a page (normally somewhere in LAN or connections type settings) which displays connected devices and if they are using traffic.
 
thanks for the reply. Can't disconnect each device as it is a shared bill. Found the qos history in my router and it shows brothers iPhone has used 3gb on Skype but that was at 6pm all others are browsers with less than 1gb usage.

Have searched the VM forum and found a post where a member is complaining of the same problem and same area as me but VM are telling him everything is OK so will reply to his thread and VM should hopefully do something.

cheers for the help.
 
thanks for the reply. Can't disconnect each device as it is a shared bill. Found the qos history in my router and it shows brothers iPhone has used 3gb on Skype but that was at 6pm all others are browsers with less than 1gb usage.

Have searched the VM forum and found a post where a member is complaining of the same problem and same area as me but VM are telling him everything is OK so will reply to his thread and VM should hopefully do something.

cheers for the help.

That makes no sense, what happens when you turn off a mobile device, its battery goes flat or the device like a phone is away from the router??? If others in the house do not want to help solve the issue then the next step is easier though more drastic......

The other more drastic way to go about things is turn off the router at 8-10pm and see which device moans it can not connect, though if its a mobile device it may then switch to mobile data leaving you with a nice bill next month. Though when the device is identified down to one individual and you all share the bills i imagine the rest of the house will soon then want to co-operate in any future network troubles.

QOS in your router will tell you nothing unless you have set QOS up for the device causing issues. I highly doubt you have as with 10+ devices if you had managed to do that for them all i doubt you would be having issues narrowing things down.

This should be easy to identify, there should be a page in the router showing which devices are connected, there should also then be another page which shows in/out (down and up) bandwidth/traffic, which will instantly stop or vastly slow counting the moment you kick the device off the connection for 30 seconds or so. If they can not bare to be offline for 30 seconds you have far bigger issues and the next steps would be to become as ignorant as they are acting.
 
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