Which is more accurate in displaying Wan data transfer? My total monthly data "bandwidth" reads: 2 GB. My total monthly "ip-traffic" reads: 8 GB Huge difference! Which one is correct?
Bandwidth Data is for WAN IPTraffic monitors traffic per-IP for any connections passing through the router, not only WAN.
@Toastman - thanks for your post/thoughts, sir! ! @Kcolyhs - both measurements should be 'accurate' - that is, to a certain extent - each of those two 'subsystems' you mentioned were thought/designed (and to gather their data by/around) watching closely (and tracking the values of) a few specially 'relevant' registers/tables/counters on their own. So, what's the catch? Different perspectives! Simply put, about the web UI: those pages under the 'classic' Bandwidth menu are mostly about tracking network/traffic/what's being going on/between the 'inside' and the 'outside' world (aka: volume of data/packets/bytes/information flowing between your local network and the outside world via the WAN interface), whereas IPTraffic monitoring is mostly about being able to monitor and track any/IPv4 network traffic being forwarded through the router - regardless of the 'origin' or 'destination' of any particular packet/communication/transfer (in fact, if you have more than one LAN bridge set up on a VLAN-UI-enabled build, you'll notice that bytes/packets/anything that goes or gets sent (forwarded by the router) between any two machines sitting on different LAN bridges could actually be accounted 'twice' in some cases: once as it goes out/from one of your LAN bridges and again when that gets forwarded and gets in/into/to some other machine, reachable by a different interface/zone/local/bridge/network/whatever...... The 'main idea' or 'common ground' between those two? One of them is (mostly) about tracking the volume of data going from/to machines on your LAN and the internet (think 'by interface') while the other goes one step further and can be configured to monitor/track the amount of packets and/or the exact amount of bytes being sent and/or received by a particular machine (down to their IPs, regardless of which interface/where such data originally came from and/or which area/zone/interface it was sent/delivered - it's about IPv4 addresses!) Cheers!
