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I have 2 laptops and 2 smartphones which, when at home, use the home's WiFi Internet connection via a Belkin Wireless N+ 802.11n Router. All these devices have different operating systems.

Is there a way I can measure the total bandwidth used each month for all uploads+downloads via that WiFi router, without having to install some app to do this on each device?

Edit: Router details as below:

  • Firmware Version: 2.00.04 (Nov 12 2008 10:51:08)
  • Boot Version: v0.05
  • Hardware (Model No.?): Belkin Wireless N+ 802.11n - F5D8236-4 v2 (01)
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Personal-home-consumer grade routers are not equipped with software to do this kind of thing, even if the underlying OS could do it. It's a shame, but the vast majority of potential customers really do not care about "advanced features" and the manufacturers care even less about spending money to develop unwanted features. This is reasonable.

If you wish to do things like traffic shaping, monitoring, unlimited NAT translations you'll have to get a "real OS" on your router. That can be done by installing a dedicated BOX (cheap pentium 500mhz or somesuch) between your router and switch with bsd or linux, or by putting dd-wrt on your "modem-switch-router". Buying an expensive router with advanced features is also possible.

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