Amandawrote:What does Glasswire indicate the traffic locally is for? Have you tried Wireshark? I think maybe comparing hour-by-hour might lead to some clues also.
~Amanda
On that particular day (and set to the same time I took the original pic), Glasswire only shows 2.1MB of local data, with the majority of it (1.6MB) being used when signing in to the router via Chrome. Since 12:00AM on the 5th, my local traffic has totalled 14.1MB. If I misinterpreted your question, I apologize.
Right now, my totals are as follows:
HughesNet (Usage page on MyAccount site): 2775MB (1581MB Anytime and 1194MB Bonus)
Netgear Router: 2549MB
Glasswire: 2.1GB. Glasswire can't be relied on at this point due to it not including my cell phone used through WiFi.
So, the difference between HughesNet and the Netgear Router is 226MB, which is close to the norm, at this point, when subtracting most of that 40MB+ difference at the beginning. The discrepancy has been generally been around 7%, so I'm okay with that, as that much difference could just be chalked up to differences in the way the data is tabulated, or even within the margin of error on both accounts. What happened at the beginning, though, didn't make sense, but it's hasn't happened since those first hours. I wonder if what Mark suggested could have been the cause.
Ah, sort of what I meant. I figure if you have a 4 hour window of where this occurs, you can compare side-by-side the hourly usage displayed on the HughesNet side vs the Glasswire side.
Mark's suggestion would make sense only if the "handed over" traffic was UDP. Maybe. In any case your IP address changes very often so if it was the case it wouldn't be much. I have a tinfoil theory of my own, however. I searched but didn't find a solid answer - Netgear and Glasswire are reading/displaying the MB out using binary (base2) or decimal (base10)? Not a huge difference in totals but worth a look..
My even bigger tinfoil theory is that it's possible that Netgear/Glasswire are misreporting external as internal or something even crazier like not including IPv6 traffic.
~Amanda
A bug bounty. LMAO!!!!
Eww!!!! >_<
Well, the idea of base2 vs base10 actually doesn't sound that crazy. Way back when, shortly after getting Gen5, I noticed the difference with Glasswire, and I asked on their forum as to whether Glasswire measured the data in base2 or base10. Well, I actually asked them using binary and decimal as the question. I kind of got the idea that the person who answered me thought I might be a little nuts, as he/she didn't really understand what I was talking about, which REALLY surprised me, and didn't give me a very good answer. I can't remember what he/she said. I'll take a look later, but it's wasn't anything definitive.
But, the difference would be minimal, and maybe right where I'm seeing.
And, of course, it could be the IPv6 traffic idea, too.
Like I said, it's not really all that concerning to me, as the difference is usually no more than 7%. It just shocked me at the beginning with whatever happened with that 80MB vs 120MB. That's just a bit more. :p Hopefully it won't do that again.
What I can do, if I remember, is to go online and check the data readings on the myAccount site using my phone (and phone data, not WiFi), and before I ever even power up the modem. That way I can continue to see what was used on that particular day (by comparing the then current data to what it started at when I checked it with the phone) and I'll be able to use Glasswire again, at least in a day by day fashion, along with the router. After all, three sources is better than two. :)
Sounds good. And yeah I agree the base10 v base2 is a small difference, but could lead us higher or lower. I enjoy chasing these cases because we don't have a bug bounty program so finding the really obscure reason for seeing a certain behavior, problem or what have you is part of what makes my job fun.
~Amanda
