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Feature Request: Bandwidth Monitor

With Comcast and others adding bandwidth caps id love to get internal alerts since Comcast numbers are so out of whack. 

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    • curtis
    • 6 yrs ago
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    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?

    • noah82
    • 6 yrs ago
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    curtis This won't work with Eero since MRTG depends on SNMP.

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

    • noah82
    • 6 yrs ago
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     curtis Nope, this will need to be implemented by Eero unfortunately.

    • curtis
    • 6 yrs ago
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    @noah82 I was afraid of that. 

    • steveriggins
    • 6 yrs ago
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    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.

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    • ChewyChop
    • 6 yrs ago
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    Please help with this feature.  There is no way I am using as much data as Comcast is reporting and it is costing me a fortune to fight.  No chance I have used 409GB of data in 7 days.  :(

      • olsonware
      • 3 yrs ago
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      ChewyChop I thought the same thing.  I switched to another mesh network device as this feature request is years old and no response from Eero.  I quickly discovered the two devices that were/are taking up the bandwidth.  I said the same thing about bandwidth - to my surprise, my AppleTV streams much more data than I thought.  BTW, my second big win switching to a new device is the MESH network speed.  With Eero, I'd get about 60-80 mbps.  Since I switched, the mesh network side of the devices I am getting over 200 mbps in the farthest room in the house.  My speed to the router is 300 mbps.  I'm not here to promote other brands out of respect for Eero , just wanted to share my findings.  Oh, and the new device's support is fantastic - instant responses every time. 

    • Schiguoi
    • 6 yrs ago
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    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.

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    • Jeff_C
    • 6 yrs ago
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    Thank you, everyone, for sharing your continued interest in this feature. We will be sure to let everyone know if there are any updates.

    Thanks again!

      • curtis
      • 6 yrs ago
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      Jeff C. Thanks for staying on top of this! 

      • curtis
      • 6 yrs ago
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      Jeff C. I've been watching this thread for nearly a year and it's gotten pretty dark and gloomy in here. I mentioned (about 10 months ago) that before switching to eero I used PeakHour3 (now PeakHour4) on my mac mini to monitor total network bandwidth. PeakHour4 works with SNMP- and UPnP-enabled routers. It appears that eero does not support either of these protocols. Is that true?

      My mac mini and Apple TV draw the most bandwidth from my monthly allowance (1TB on Comcast/Xfinity). I'm currently trying to configure PkHr4 to simply monitor those two devices. However, my internet life would be less stressful if eero would implement its own bandwidth monitoring tool or a way for third party software to monitor your hardware.

      • gedeyenite
      • 6 yrs ago
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      curtis I just researched PeakHour4.  Looks promising as it might work, not with eero, but with my Cable MoDem which has SNMP.  Testing this evening when I get home.

      • curtis
      • 6 yrs ago
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      gedeyenite Apparently eero does have an implementation of UPnP in its hardware. PkHr4, using UPnP, "sees" the eero gateway device, it "responds to queries" but the device does not "report bandwidth" to PkHr4.

      • curtis
      • 6 yrs ago
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      gedeyenite 

      Here’s how eero shows up in my PeakHour4 configuration...

    • ActuallySparky
    • 6 yrs ago
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    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.

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

    • macphreak
    • 6 yrs ago
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    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. 

    • imahawki
    • 6 yrs ago
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    Please please please implement this feature!  Recently I've begun to approach my data cap of 1TB!  this is a significant increase in usage over past trends, but I have no idea which device is using all the data and why!  Is one of my kids downloading something I don't know about?  Is an AppleTV running a streaming app non-stop?

     

    Implement a full data usage UI.  Allow users to set their billing start/end dates rather than just blindly using the 1st of the month.  This is no more difficult to code.  Also, set up configurable alerts if you are using more than X% of data in X% of time.  I.e. let me say my billing period starts on the 19th and if by the 28th I've used more than 25% of my data, let me know via alert.  Again, this would not be difficult to code (or hard code it at 10% or 25% increments.  That would be easy if you let people enter when their billing cycle ends.  Mine ends on the 20th of each month.

      • Richard1864
      • 6 yrs ago
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      imahawki I agree it needs to be done. Eero is now the ONLY major U.S. networking vendor that doesn’t have this data usage tracking as part of their app, and every ISP, including Comcast, Federal courts, and the FCC recommend their customers use these apps to monitor their usage.  The Federal courts are actually on record as requiring networking vendors to include it in their apps and/or web interfaces so that customers can independently verify what their ISP’s claim about their data usage. I don’t see any real reason why Eero doesn’t include this in the app. Luma, Plume, Ubiquiti/Amplifi, and the other mesh networking vendors all include it too, so it isn’t an issue with mesh networking either. 

    • Juggler.1
    • 6 yrs ago
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    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.

    • imahawki
    • 6 yrs ago
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    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.

    • Richard1864
    • 6 yrs ago
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    I honestly don't know why this isn't a feature yet. Eero is now literally the ONLY mesh networking system that does NOT have a bandwidth monitor as part of the app, and there's no technical excuse for this, which is also considered a mandatory standard feature by the networking industry and FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act) as of 2014.  I repeat, Eero is now the ONLY mesh networking system with NO bandwidth monitoring. 

     

    Sorry guys, but there really is no excuse for not having this, and no excuse for no IPv6 support either. Everyone else has that too. 

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    • essjay
    • 6 yrs ago
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    Please add this ASAP. My internet provider has instigated a data cap of 1TB and I am consistently 1.5 to 2x over that.  I have no alternative ISP providers so I am stuck with Cox.  That means my internet price has more than doubled with $100 per month overage charges.  I really need to find the individual devices on my network that are hogging the data and the total data used by my network to confirm what the ISP says I am using.  If Eero doesn't add this I will be forced to try another system similar to Eero, even though I do like it.

    • imahawki
    • 6 yrs ago
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    Leave a 1-star rating in the App Store citing this lack of feature and lack of responsiveness to customers. The only thing that will make them fix this is lost sales. 

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