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pfSense has a lot of features around bandwitch monitoring.<br>
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I usually monitor bandwidth using snmp stats for the upstream
interfaces (made more complex if you have multiple uplinks, such as
VPN tunnels ;-). ntop does it (and at one point I had remote data
collection working to pull ntop data from pfsense and doing offline
analysis on a Linux box; not sure where that code went).... or
netflow... or... there may be more.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2016-10-08 15:15, Rick Hornsby
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ISP does not currently have a per month data limit, and does not
provide us with any usage stats as such. However, with all the
nonsense coming out of Comcast and AT&T (including the
stories of being charged for grossly over-inflated data usage),
it's got me curious about my own usage. What does my usage look
like now, and if I found myself in a monopoly setting where
there was only one residential ISP, and they had usage caps -
how would I measure it for myself?</div>
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style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">As
has been pointed out in these over-charging stories, unlike your
electric meter or your gas meter which is subject to the
jurisdiction of a PUCO type government body, there's absolutely
no accountability or transparency stopping Comcast from just
making up a number - or being wrong and trying to charge you for
something you didn't use anyway.</div>
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have pfSense as my home router, and I have the ntop package
running but I'm finding a couple of challenges with it -</div>
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Any configuration changes to ntop reset all the statistics back
to zero (There's an option for keeping historical data, but it
seems clear from the UI that this should not be turned on.)</div>
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While I definitely like some of the detail (which I don't
understand yet), I'm having a hard time figuring out where the
overall data used number might be</div>
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style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">I
have an extra pi, I was thinking of maybe having pfSense ship
the stats to that. Is there a better tool than ntop? Even if the
only stats I got were total data used, and maybe total (WAN?)
data used by device - I think that might be good enough.</div>
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