GPSJane
Well-Known Member
There is a huge disparity between the reported data usage on Mweb and on my router.
Anyone ever check this themselves?
Anyone ever check this themselves?
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Mweb data reporting incorrect/DD-WRT reporting incorrect?
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Pada
Executive Member
My IS & DD-WRT data sent + received values are matching up very nicely:
But I do find it strange that IS' status page doesn't list the first session that I made directly after mid-night before I forcefully disconnected the ppp connection.
I had to convert between MiB (1 MiB = 1024 KiB) and MB (1 MB = 1000 KB) to be able to compare IS (in MB) & DD-WRT (in MiB and Bytes).
GPSJane:
1) is your Mweb report showing way more usage than DD-WRT?
2) are you using SNMP or ifconfig to get the bytes sent/received with DD-WRT?
3) did you reset your PPPoE connection on DD-WRT at midnight on the 1st of March?
The difference here is possibly due to me forcefully disconnecting the IS connection so that I regain my international connectivity at the beginning of this month.
But I do find it strange that IS' status page doesn't list the first session that I made directly after mid-night before I forcefully disconnected the ppp connection.
I had to convert between MiB (1 MiB = 1024 KiB) and MB (1 MB = 1000 KB) to be able to compare IS (in MB) & DD-WRT (in MiB and Bytes).
GPSJane:
1) is your Mweb report showing way more usage than DD-WRT?
2) are you using SNMP or ifconfig to get the bytes sent/received with DD-WRT?
3) did you reset your PPPoE connection on DD-WRT at midnight on the 1st of March?
GPSJane
Well-Known Member
Hi Pada
1. Mweb is showing way more usage than DD-WRT. About double.
2. I'm using the graphical bandwisth monitor in the web gui.
3. I didn't reset the PPoE connection but it shows the usage per day and per month and I am looking at February too.
1. Mweb is showing way more usage than DD-WRT. About double.
2. I'm using the graphical bandwisth monitor in the web gui.
3. I didn't reset the PPoE connection but it shows the usage per day and per month and I am looking at February too.
Pada
Executive Member
I really won't advise that you make use of that WAN Status : Traffic by Month report, since it's only recording the ppp0 interface and I definitely transfered more than 500MB via my ppp0 interfaces last month - seeing that I went through 2GB + 1GB international accounts.
Are you using just a single PPPoE interface?
Rather just reboot the router at the start of the month and then use like 'ifconfig $(nvram get wan_iface) | grep bytes' to get the total bytes sent & received on the WAN interface.
You can always track the usage with SNMP and something like PRTG Network Monitor. Unfortunately my PC isn't switched on 24/7 which I'm running PRTG Network Monitor, so I can't say whether those totals would reflect the exact data usage either.
Are you using just a single PPPoE interface?
Rather just reboot the router at the start of the month and then use like 'ifconfig $(nvram get wan_iface) | grep bytes' to get the total bytes sent & received on the WAN interface.
You can always track the usage with SNMP and something like PRTG Network Monitor. Unfortunately my PC isn't switched on 24/7 which I'm running PRTG Network Monitor, so I can't say whether those totals would reflect the exact data usage either.
GPSJane
Well-Known Member
Why would it not all go through the WAN interface interface? That is all the WAN traffice that moves in and out the network. I don't particularly want to have to reboot the router on specific dates - this should be a proper method not just a work around. What if I am not here or the router reboots in the middle of the month. That's just silly.
I also don't want network monitors on all computers - what if someone else visits and uses my bandwidth? That's also a silly way to do it.
Why would there be a WAN traffic counter if it doesn't work? And apparently it does work as bokka1 points out.
MWEB doesn't always start counting right at the beginning of the month, it seems, there may be an hour or so of difference (at least on mine). However, what they report and what my IPCop machine reports are very close to one another. I decided to wait a few days after the beginning of the month to post, to get some decent stats. Right now they report:
IPCop : This months volume (MB): 33162.41
MWEB : You have used 32.51 GB so far this month.
They are less than 200MB apart for me (32.51 vs 32.385)
IPCop : This months volume (MB): 33162.41
MWEB : You have used 32.51 GB so far this month.
They are less than 200MB apart for me (32.51 vs 32.385)
the issue may be that it is unreliable. because as i say there are whole weeks where i have downloaded multiple GBs yet the monitor shows no usage on those days. This happened across a number of dd-wrt versions i have used.
Pada
Executive Member
I really don't know how DD-WRT identifies its WAN interface, because when I ran 'get_wanface', it showed ppp2, which wasn't my default route!
GPSJane: why don't you just use Mweb's data reporting service since DD-WRT's is "broken"?
GPSJane: why don't you just use Mweb's data reporting service since DD-WRT's is "broken"?
GPSJane
Well-Known Member
But what if Mweb is not reporting correctly?