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BirdDog, wish me luck !
Just picked up an Asus AC3100
That puppy takes the Merlin firmware.
That should put a name on who is using what :)
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- BirdDogAssistant ProfessorI keep looking for a Byte vacuum cleaner online. So far no luck. Those suckers make a mess!
- Gwalk900Honorary Alumnus
I have been keeping an eye on the amount od data used by the AiProtection functions of my router.
in the period of 10/6 through the evening of 10/11 it has used 560.41 MB.
That seems like a lot of data used to this Miser:
- GWAdvanced TutorMy cheap ASUS doesn't give that depth of info but my Hughes Status Meter says we've used 588 MB from 10/4 through right now. That doesn't seem like much to me but I guess it's a whole new world now that I'm not constantly running speed tests.
- C0RR0SIVEAssociate ProfessorTo be honest, 500MB/day sounds fairly normal... How you manage to spread it out like that is beyond me. xD
- BirdDogAssistant ProfessorYea, I pick on him about too much about being a miser but even 200 MB a day seems a bit low to me. I don't have AiProtection enabled but still use 300+ on a normal day.That is with wife doing some YouTube clips though.
- Gwalk900Honorary Alumnus
That 560 MB was consumed by the router itself in the course of providing the following "services":
Malicious site Blocking
Vulnerability Protection
DNS FilteringAt nearly 100 MB per day if someone had a daily plan those services would really leave a mark.
That would have been in addition to data used by my computers and devices.
- Gwalk900Honorary Alumnus
OK, so I have been known to horde a few Bytes now and then :)
- GWAdvanced TutorEwww, yeah that would leave a mark.
I forgot to mention the 190 MB Bonus Bytes that our gizmo's have used in the last week doing whatever it is they do when they stay up all night :-) - BirdDogAssistant ProfessorWhy do I have a feeling most of those on daily plans will probably never buy one of these routers anyway. Is good to know how much enabling those services uses though.
- Gwalk900Honorary Alumnus
I'm thinking it could only go up from there.
Those services are accessing some data bases. The more "internet transactions" you make, the more the data base is checked.
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