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Why doesn WallWatcher report Bandwidth usage for my router?

April 26, 2017bandwidth report Router usage wallwatcher

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Why doesn WallWatcher report Bandwidth usage for my router?

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• Some routers can supply bandwidth usage information, and some can’t. Many routers provide that information through “SNMP” (Simple Network Management Protocol). WallWatcher can ask the router for that information, and if the router replies, WallWatcher can report the results. You may have to turn on “SNMP” in the router’s configuration pages to get this working. • Some routers report packet lengths in the log records themselves, and WallWatcher can use that information for bandwidth measurement. Most routers do not do this, and even the ones that do usually report only a small fraction (around 10%) of the total bandwidth usage, so this method is not reliable.