Easy there tiger.
Obviously we as the ISP can see what the customer is using by any number
of means, I assumed the idea was for the consumer to be able to see it
so as to reduce the tech support load of dealing with calls where the
customer complains of "slow" which is self inflicted.
I think it would great if there was something with a display on the top
telling the user how many mbps they're using right now.
Better if the customer can easily see which device in the house is
hosing them and better still if it can take a guess at what the traffic
is.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Dan Parrish" <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: 1/25/2018 12:30:55 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] consumer router with monitoring and controls
Hahaha, oh man. Thanks for that concept and the bonus link. I got good
laughs out of both of those.
You could log/graph client-side usage pretty easily. Everything after
that would involve netflow or some other sort of construct. Not exactly
user-friendly. Nevermind that an increasing amount of traffic is
encrypted and over time we'll see even common known ports become less
reliable as a means of identifying traffic X Y or Z. Nevermind, VPN
usage is going up over time, so you'll just see the container traffic
with no visibility into the actual payload.
Regarding the Norton product...$300 price doesn't include annual
subscription. This device is assuredly built with designed
obsolescence,
so they'll stop supporting it after 3 or 4 years. And I'll guarantee
Norton will tell you this device alone won't "protect your PC". For
that, you'll need the separate (non-free) Norton AV installed on each
of
your individual devices.
Funny stuff! Keep it coming!
--dan
On 1/25/2018 10:39 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
I there currently a decent consumer router that logs client usage,
ideally by destination/application?
By consumer I mean out of the box user friendly
price-point 150 dollars or less
Norton has a new home router that doesnt look like a terrible thing
other than looking dumb
https://us.norton.com/core-secure-router-features pricier than above,
and not certain it logs
