Hi all,
My current setup is a Surfboard SB6141 connected to a Netgear Nighthawk as my primary router. One of the Nighthawk's LAN ports connects to a TP-Link 24-port gigabit switch which then provides the connection to most of my ethernet devices. One other ethernet device is connected directly to my Nighthawk router. The Nighthawk is the only WIFI access point (no extenders).
Thanks to Comcast's 1TB data cap, I want to better understand which individual devices in my network are hogging my bandwidth (I used 1.5TB last month alone).
Lots of reading to understand various ways and it seems like the best way is to have a router device which is seeing all the incoming/outgoing traffic and measuring bandwidth accordingly.
YAMon seems to be a popular choice, installed on a *WRT-flashed router. Unfortunately, I can't flash firmware on my Nighthawk.
*BUT* I still really want to keep my Nighthawk as the primary WIFI device.
It appears main option would be to take my "old" ASUS RT-AC66U router and flash WRT onto it. But this is where I'm a little grey for setup and ensuring the WRT device with YAMon is getting all the inbound/outbound traffic.
Would I set up such that Surfboard -> ASUS WRT as router/gateway with wifi off -> Nighthawk as WIFI access point? And if so, what would I need to do special for IP addressing? ASUS WRT would inherit IP address from Surfboard, then ASUS WRT LAN would be one IP subnet that the Nighthawk's WAN is connected to (let's say 192.168.1.x), then the Nighthawk's LAN would be on the same subnet, correct? And if that's the case the ASUS WRT device would then be able to see all the individual devices and see their bandwidth utilization using YAMon, right?
My current setup is a Surfboard SB6141 connected to a Netgear Nighthawk as my primary router. One of the Nighthawk's LAN ports connects to a TP-Link 24-port gigabit switch which then provides the connection to most of my ethernet devices. One other ethernet device is connected directly to my Nighthawk router. The Nighthawk is the only WIFI access point (no extenders).
Thanks to Comcast's 1TB data cap, I want to better understand which individual devices in my network are hogging my bandwidth (I used 1.5TB last month alone).
Lots of reading to understand various ways and it seems like the best way is to have a router device which is seeing all the incoming/outgoing traffic and measuring bandwidth accordingly.
YAMon seems to be a popular choice, installed on a *WRT-flashed router. Unfortunately, I can't flash firmware on my Nighthawk.
*BUT* I still really want to keep my Nighthawk as the primary WIFI device.
It appears main option would be to take my "old" ASUS RT-AC66U router and flash WRT onto it. But this is where I'm a little grey for setup and ensuring the WRT device with YAMon is getting all the inbound/outbound traffic.
Would I set up such that Surfboard -> ASUS WRT as router/gateway with wifi off -> Nighthawk as WIFI access point? And if so, what would I need to do special for IP addressing? ASUS WRT would inherit IP address from Surfboard, then ASUS WRT LAN would be one IP subnet that the Nighthawk's WAN is connected to (let's say 192.168.1.x), then the Nighthawk's LAN would be on the same subnet, correct? And if that's the case the ASUS WRT device would then be able to see all the individual devices and see their bandwidth utilization using YAMon, right?
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