Question for the DD-WRT experts
 

I'm having a problem with excess bandwidth and can't figure out where it is coming from. My Buffalo router had a really good bandwidth monitor but it is only a one size fits all overall usage monitor. I need something that will monitor usage on each individual device. Are there any add ons for DDWRT that will do this? I'm not really having any luck finding anything that will do this.

I did find this but I have no idea how to install it to my router.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtop...er=asc&start=0

I have mac filtering set up so people can't logon to my wifi without me putting their Mac address in my router first.

How many devices do you have?

Can you disconnect them all and then reconnect one at a time and watch the bandwidth?

No need for that just use WPA2.

too many really.
I already do.

MAC address filtering is useless. You'd be better off just turning it off.

Your best bet is to use a sniffer. Get a cheap ethernet hub and insert it on the WAN side of your router and just capture all the traffic.

This. Someone's probably throttling the bandwidth with torrent uploads or skype streams or something.

If you're going to do the "disconnect and reconnect" thing, your best bet is to change the WPA2 pre-shared key and then reboot the router.

You'll disconnect everything and nothing can get back on until you re-enter the key. That will help you account for wireless intruders or neighbors that are stealing your internet and it will also account for devices that you might have otherwise forgotten (I have over 50 wireless devices on my network so yes, you can forget sometimes).

Here is some good info - http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php...tflow_and_ntop

That would certainly work. But then he'd have to setup a server and everything...

Switch to the Tomato firmware.

I don't think Tomato does top talkers either, does it?

I'm fairly certain it does. I ran it on my 54G for a few years until it burned out. I think it even did things like restricting hours of access for certain devices but I might be imagining that.

I replaced it with an Airport Extreme and haven't looked back.

Yeah, a lot of firmwares can do access restrictions by device (the stock Netgear can do that).

Not a lot of them do top talkers without enabling netflow or something similar, which actually requires an external server for data repository.

Damnit I give up. I set my router to disallow all traffic from midnight to 4pm. Woke up and zero activity. It is now 5pm and and 1gb gone. WTF

Why would you give up before you've even started to solve the problem? :thumb:

I've been researching and tweaking things since last weekend. I'm ****ing frustrated.

PORN.

Change the WPA2 PSK, reboot the router, and start reconnecting devices one by one.

It's your only option at this point unless you want to do one of the other more technical solutions here.

Or you could just continue to watch your bandwidth disappear...

Where are you getting the bandwidth activity from?

Thats what I can't figure out. I can't nail this down per device without turning everything off and doing them all one at a time for an hour or so. I'm about ready to confiscate every ones mobile device for a day and see what happens.

If you are referring to my internet provider it is Cox. But my router confirms their information daily so I don't think its a problem on their end.

I've done all of that other than the one by one option. Not looking forward to that as the entire family will whine all day.

What I was asking was...is Cox showing 1GB of usage between 4 and 5 PM today, or your router, or both?

Tell them to get the **** off Facebook and go outside. :D

Technically neither does that. The only reason I knew it was between 4 and 5 today is because I shut the internet down all day while I slept.

My router gives me up to date bandwith info for the day. I can't compare it to cox until tomorrow when they release my daily stats for today. But they have matched all week.

There is no way facebook is the culprit. Yes, I know that was a joke.

Maybe someone is bitcoin mining off of yr shit ROFL

I don't even know WTF that even means.

stupid question. why do you care? are you on some kind of metered plan?

yep. 250gb per month. Because of this leak we surpassed it last month. At this point Cox doesn't do anything about it but someday they will.

lolwat. I assume that's 250gb upload?

Lot of zombie exploits out there install processes on network devices so that it takes up a bunch of resources to mine bitcoins and send the information back to their server. This is more with CPU resources on the device as opposed to uploading though.

250gb download.

Woah. Doodwat. That sucks ROFL

Yep. Virus.

:cuss:ROFL

thats the standard in my city unless you fork over $100 per month for internet.

wow. screw that.

Here's some more info on tomato. One way to approach it would be to just turn off the internet for everything during those times when you aren't around.

If you're feeling more aggressive (this is your network..you can do what you want locally) then just keep an eye on the real time bandwidth monitoring. When the traffic spikes, fire up wireshark and figure out what's going on.

If you're feeling even more randy, break out Driftnet and if they're looking at pictures or movies, you will too.

Honestly it's hard to tell what your comfort level is with some of this stuff, but if you're smart enough to be using DD-WRT then you're clever enough to figure out how to get Wireshark and/or driftnet going.

I'm already shutting down the internet when I am gone at night and during the weekdays until 4pm. But I wasn't seeing a lot of traffic during those hours anyway because the kids are sleeping or in school. I'm trying to nail down which device is taking all the bandwidth without just confiscating all of them.

Blame your kids and Netflix :D

Then I'd get familiar with how to use Wireshark.

Or move. Google Fiber's great.

I'm starting to think Youtube may be the problem on my daughters tablet. I have to monitor it for a couple days and check the stats on the tablet and see. If my suspicion is correct, I'll have to make a rule on the router to block youtube on her device.

We should have had google fiber but renaming our city to Google,, Ks just wasn't enough for those pricks so they chose KC.

That will go over well.

:D It won't be a complete shut down. Just a limited time frame.

I just hope this is actually waht it is because if it isn't then I'm back to square one.

Well ****. now the router is bricked. I can't find any fixes on the net that work even though they reportedly work.

It is a Buffalo airstation n600 WZR600DHP

HELP

What the hell did you do?

Have you tried a 30/30/30 reset?

30/30/30 reset didn't do anything. tried it twice.
Decided to try the Gargoyle firmware that everything on their website stated it was safe for my router. I found several successful installs in their forums. boom bricked. I have found 3 options to fix and can't get them to work. Of course, one of them requires Linux to fix which isn't an option for me. Another needs me to use a terminal and the terminals I am using are not connecting to it. the DD WRT website is crashed today too so I don't even have that as a resource.

Beyond ticked off since so many installed it just fine on this router. Just my damn luck I would be the odd one out.

today has been complete bad luck for me. not only this but got a jury duty notice for pool 4 so I am guaranteed to get called unless I can delay it.

I know it's not the same model, but here is a link for a recovery.
http://g300nh.blogspot.com/2010/06/f...-recovery.html

thanks. I have already tried that one and a few others. Nothing seems to work. Contacted Buffalo and am sending it in for Warranty replacement. Hopefully they won't work on it to be able to determine I farted around with the firmware and just send me the replacement. Otherwise I am stuck with that damn Belkin with a crap firmware. Good router but you cannot track anything on it.

You can run Linux on any PC using a Live CD.

Not on mine. I've tried several flavors on USB and DVD. My laptop seems to block them as it always locks up on bootup.

Wow, man. Talk about a confluence of bad luck...

cox wont do anything until you go past 2 TB up and down. Then they started messing with my modem. Problems went away the next billing cycle. Their official statement is they do not punish you for excessive bandwidth. They are full of shit. Only one cox employee admitted to me that they disable heavy bandwidth users. It is automated.

LMAO yeah, next laptop gets linux no matter what. I pretty much only use them for web surfing anyway. Suppose I should stay away from HP though since this one has never let me install Linux on it.

Well then I never have to worry about it. I'll never hit 2TB. At least not for about 5-10 years.

It's probably an AHCI error, some of the distros changed the AHCI drivers and it has a bug.

You could try changing the controller Mode in the bios to IDE, but a Warning it that could hose your Windows install.

Wonder if he could install VirtualBox and do it that way?

Damn, I forgot to mention that, Great idea.

Could do virtual PC or Vmware server or Vmware player.

You can even install Hyper-v on Windows 8.1.

VirtualBox is pretty slick. I had some issues getting Kali running with a dynamically sized disc, but considering the capacity I've got in this new machine that shouldn't be a problem for a little while.

Yeah, I love it. Very easy to configure and use.

I still use VMWare Fusion for Windows 7 virtualization though. It's ability to access my full Boot Camp Windows drive is just great.

I'm going to try a warranty replacement first. If they disalllow then I will try this again.

Well the good news is that they sent me a brand new router. The bad news is that they upgraded me to a new router that doesn't use DDWRT so now I have no monitoring control at all.

You're like the tech version of MTG#10.

ROFL

Ouch.

On a side note, I'm tempted to install DD-WRT on my new Netgear R7000. The stock firmware has some "issues".

Or the Hamas and consoles.

LMAO the new routers wifi is faulty so now they are going to send me another replacement. This time they are going to send me back the duplicate to the one I actually sent in so I will have my DDWRT back.

Wow dude. You're like the KC Chiefs of wifi routers...

It's like leading off the ball game with a bunt. Maybe this time it'll work.

LMAO No doubt

Would anyone like to purchase a brand new never opened BUFFALO AirStation HighPower N600 Gigabit Simultaneous Dual Band Router (WZR-600DHP2).

They are just sending me the exact same router again instead of the original DHP with DDWRT citing that they no longer manufacture that model and have no refurbs.

Since it doesn't have the DDWRT firmware and I have already had a bad experience with this model, I really will have no use for this router. My out of warranty Belkin will work just fine for that now. Sounds like it arrives Monday.

Supposedly corporate is going to call me to discuss if I have any further options aka refund or next model up, but I don't have high hopes on either.

Dude, I've been working with Netgear for a week with what appears to be an ARP issue in the R7000.

I've tried 3 different firmwares, done all of the troubleshooting, and even taken packet captures with Wireshark and they don't have any means for me to send them the files.

Their support site only supports 10MB attachments and they don't have an externally facing FTP server.

They actually asked me to install Teamserver, which is remote control/emeeting software so they could download the files directly from my PC.

I ended having to setup an FTP server. Unbelieveable that I've basically done 100% of the work in an effort for them to fix these issues.

Seriously? wow, just wow!!!

I've used Netgear for many years and beta tested several products, including some that actually made it to the market with improvements based on my and others feedback.

They've been really good to me over the years but I'm getting REALLY frustrated with them. I didn't sign up for a beta test when I paid $200 for this router. I'm not new to the game, I know that things don't ever work out of the box but this thing has significant issues with basic functions that should never fail...

Holy crap. $200 for a router? What does it do?