Just picked up an Asus AC3100
That puppy takes the Merlin firmware.
That should put a name on who is using what 🙂
I put on a different pair of glasses (Bee goggles?) and connected the new router.
Really sweet interface but you do have to go through the menu choices carefully.
I opted to not enable the Sync and Remote Access features:
It just opens up to many back doors to suit my taste.
Nor did I enable any of the "AiProtection" features because they access data bases in real-time. I may enable later just to gauge the performance hit and data usage.
These features could also be source of "missing data" as they wouldn't show up in Glasswire or any other monitoring software. It will be interesting to see how this work out and if the Traffic Monitor recognizes the router itself as a "client" consuming data.
Different traffic analysis displays:
Overall:
By device:
By application per device:
Definitely the tool to have for those that are missing data and are unwilling to breakdown their network.
As a test I enabled the following services:
Security Assesment: Done
Malicious site Blocking:On
Vulnerability Protection:On
DNS Fitering:On: OpenDNS
Enabled at 2:37 PM
Remaining data:
47,488 Anytime
49,779 Bonus
29,000 Token
The router does list itself as a client in the list of devices:
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:
OK, so I have been known to horde a few Bytes now and then 🙂
