Hi, new here: I want to buy a (MikroTik) router and monitor my home network

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Hi, new here - searched around but found no answer or a good howto.

I want to buy a - probably MikroTik - router and with that features and with some SW (The Dude & MRTG?) Monitor my home network for bandwidth usage. Best I want see application-level NW usage, but at least IP address / protocol aggregates per host. How easy / is it possible to do this?

Thank you for your help in advance!

Sandor

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Hi ,
yes it’s possible in Mikrotik , you can separate your traffic per application , per service , per host , per client , but you should know how they communicate with network , for example : their IP address and ports , or protocol they’re using.

Traffic marking in Mikrotik could be done by Firewall Mangle feature and limiting traffic(if you wanna do) could be done by Queue