Comments on: How to use the DD-WRT firmware to monitor your bandwidth

By: arden

arden — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:26:17 +0000

Does this also log the inbound/outbound overhead traffic? I was loggin mine and it came to about 243GB for a month, but I was told I used 262GB, and my limit was 250, so I was a little surprised!

By: John

John — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:22:16 +0000

Ty Myrick: You can enable logging on your router but I haven’t tried it myself. Barring that, forcing http/https traffic through a software proxy server would give you the granular logging you need.

Those who can’t see the WAN traffic graph: I just ugpraded from v23 sp2 to v24 sp1 (mini) and the new menu Status -> WAN tab was immediately available.

By: bobk

bobk — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:28:33 +0000

From my experience tomato loses all of the bandwidth data, unless previously backed up.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:58:42 +0000

DD-WRT works well, but if your router gets reset, it resets your bandwidth counter for that day. Not a big deal, but does anyone know if Tomato works the same way? (i.e. you lose that day’s count if you reset your router)

Thanks!

By: Don

Don — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:05:32 +0000

Worked like a charm. I flashed my stock WRT54GL to the v24 mini. After comparing the mini load to the standard, I felt the mini would do just fine. But I don’t see where there’s any way to track individual computers. If you want to do that, use the previous posts:

How to monitor your Internet bandwidth usage in OS X, redux
How to monitor your Internet bandwidth usage in Windows

Now I can see what kind of damage I’m doing to Comcast’s network :>

By: Ty Myrick

Ty Myrick — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:24:11 +0000

I’ve been looking for something exactly like this for my mother. She has satellite internet with bandwidth caps. Is there a way to get DD-WRT to show WAN traffic per computer? We are trying to track what exactly has been causing her to go over her cap.

By: Ross McKillop

Ross McKillop — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:22:19 +0000

@hcabsar – WAN as in Wide Area Network. Which in “home router” terms, means “Internet”. So it covers wireless and wired, but not local (across your own network) transfers.

By: hcabsar

hcabsar — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:05:55 +0000

Your instructions say to click on WLAN, that would be wireless only- wouldn’t it?

By: hammy

hammy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:23:35 +0000

If you don’t see the above mentioned traffic by month section, go into the services menu and enable the “WAN traffic counter”