Feature Request: Bandwidth Monitor

Chris —

Thanks for reaching out. If you haven't yet, please contact our support team so they can take a look into the issue you are having with your Samsung SmartCam.

As for the issue with your NAS device, local area traffic is not reported in these usage numbers.

For more information, please see this help center article.

epo —

Thanks for reaching out. Please see the post above to Chris for more information on this.

Same goes for the Slingbox with local network traffic, as these usage numbers are not reported.

Jeff C. Anything going through WiFi is going through the gateway router. That's the only way it gets to the upstream router. 

Jeff C. By the way do you have a list of features that get disabled in bridge mode? Or is this documented somewhere? Would be good to know.

Jeff C. Great to see the bandwidth usage data show up in the latest release.  Is it safe to say the next logical steps in this would be a monthly tabulation per device followed by a historical view per device?  I know many here have asked and requested for a similar view and while I am not currently limited by my ISP it would not surprise me for that to change soon.

Hi  jalcala —

Thanks for chiming in! We hope you enjoy this new feature!

While we don't have any updates to share, we are always monitoring feedback and customer interest in other features. I'm happy to continue to share the continued interest for greater overall data usage features. 

Thanks again!

griltech —

We don't have a specific list to refer to (we can look to get that added to our Help Center), but in bridge mode, most advanced features are not accessible. This includes bandwidth usage, Family Profiles, and the ability to make any changes to the advanced network settings as those are handled by the upstream router.

To add scope to this: it would be great to see a breakdown of traffic types / sources... how much bandwidth was used by Netflix in the house vs Xbox vs Hulu.

Great suggestion, jmutchek ! I've passed it along with the ongoing feedback for this request.

I'd love to have this option as well.  One of my favorite features of the Google Wifi system that I replaced with Eero was the ability to see detailed monthly internet traffic for each device on my network as well as an overall network wide usage.  It's also helpful to keep this information for at least 6 months so you can compare usage over time, since the ISPs monitoring always seems to be off.

I heard about an open source network monitoring tool from a podcast a few days ago.

MTRG < http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/ >

I haven't downloaded or done anything with it yet. I've done a cursory look through its documentation and I haven't found any references to eero. Has anyone tried it? Is it compatible with eero?

curtis This won't work with Eero since MRTG depends on SNMP.

 noah82 Thanks for the reply. Do you know if there anything out there, open source or commercial, that will monitor an eero mesh network?

 curtis Nope, this will need to be implemented by Eero unfortunately.

@noah82 I was afraid of that. 

I would like to add that with people hitting terrible Comcast data caps, a full usage report is becoming a necessary feature.

My Ubiquiti reports on categories (shopping, streaming) but it falls flat on things like "this month" and also, it's not good at differentiating WAN/LAN traffic.

We need all of this. Total traffic by client and by type. Also broken out WAN/LAN.  A family should be able to tell which client is doing what, like "100gb Netflix, 20gb Facebook" etc.

I’d love to see this as well. Cox just notified us that they are implementing data caps and we’ve consistently been over that line. I’d love to see what devices are the biggest offenders over time to curb usage for certain devices or profiles.

Piling on to add my support for this feature. Knowing how much bandwidth my network used in a month is critical for staying under my caps. Icing on the cake would be per-device or per-persona breakdowns to find the culprit, but the P0 is certainly a log of all the upstream and downstream that went across the WAN.

I concur.  Having looked through all the suggestions for improvements on this board this is absolutely the #1 useful feature!

Want to add my voice to the feature request. Comcast just gave us a notice that we have used 1tb of data in 16 days. I don't see how this is possible but since we switched over to eero there is no way to tell which devices used what and what (if anything) I can even do about it. *Please* implement this feature as soon as possible. We need monthly data usage per device. If I knew my son was streaming Netflix all day I could address it. Right now, I just have nothing to go on. 

I'm also on the bandwagon of bandwidth monitoring being a necessity.  I love the functionality and ease of the Eero, but since Comcast is now charging me for overages, I need to be able to identify which devices are peak data consumers so I know where to start with limiting. (Or at a minimum, validating Comcast's numbers)  After all the requests (for months), this feature should not still be listed as "Under Consideration".   It should be "Under Development".  I hate to lose the features of the Eero, but I am forced to utilize it only as a network of repeaters behind a device running DD-WRT.

Can we please get an update from Eero on this?  I feel like we're just beating our collective heads against a wall.  I'm very disappointed that it has already been 9 months with no resolution on what is a simple feature request.