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[DrBen]

Was looking for a Bandwith monitor for multiple computers to avoid the Fap and found this free service that supports up to 10 computers and was hoping someone needing it could get it working on there HN9000 and post the how to.

HN9000 hooked to Linksys switch. 2 Computers.

Thanks and good luck.

[100Volts]

If you have just one PC there are any numbers of ways to keep track of packets in/out (many software firewalls have such a feature), but if you have a small network that approach would be problematic.

Just spitballing a bit as I'm in the same boat as you. If you can't get real-time usage data off the HN9000 (which is obvious place to get it) how about getting it from the router/gateway. Theoretically, you should get the same usage info from the gateway and HN9000. Haven't tried either one of these ideas yet (I've used DD-WRT before but didn't play with its SNMP implementation) , but will.

1. Most residential routers standard firmware don't support SNMP. But there are 3rd-party firmware that do (flavors of DD-WRT). I wonder what a combo of: Linksys (or other supported router) running SNMP via DD-WRT and and a free SNMP monitoring tool such as cacti or STG would get you.

2. Tomato, another 3rd-party firmware, has bandwidth monitoring tools built-in.

[hulijan]

As 100volts said, there are many ways to measure traffic from a specific computer or on a LAN.

The issues that have not been solved for the HN9000 that hnFAPmon solves for all the legacy modems are 1) the issue of monitoring on a rolling 24 hour basis, and not a calendar 24 hrs, and 2) refilling alloted bandwidth concurrent with depleting that same allotment.

As you contemplate additional equipment or software, you need to keep those two issues in mind and whether they are being addressed.

I haven't seen a decent solution yet. There is a shareware opportunity laying out there, it just hasn't been picked up yet by a software developer.