i have never been able to find a way to keep track of my usage .. now if you look at the interface you can see how much the wan has used but soon as you reboot the router the details are lost im just a home user who runs some small servers from here as a hobby so im not a wireless isp or anything with customers i just want to see each month how much im using
i tried the app some guy made but it seems to have a bug where it resets it self after you go over 100Gb with it
i tried to use Cacti but could only seem to get it to tell me grapths for speed and none for usage .. i noticed on the forum there is a usagemanager script but it looks to be catered to Wireless Isp Clients
anyone know a simple say i can keep track of my usage that will save when the router reboots … ? that would be awesome
im nearly about to just unplug the mikotik and go buy a a router and load dd-wrt onto it as it seems to monitor usage very simply i know that mikotik is a enterprise product but some things should be easy
Cacti (or any other SNMP type of system) is going to be your best bet.
The 100M limit sounds suspiciously like a strange limit I had with Cisco routers. The fix was to configure the data source in Cacti to use 64 bit counters. I’m not certain if MT supports this, but I would think they do.
Netflows/Traffic Flow would be another option as a way of getting that data. It would allow you to drill down to each connection as well and see what is specifically using your bandwidth. NTop is a free Linux program that can take in Netflows and is fairly easy to configure if you are looking for something quick and simple. NFSen also works fairly well, but requires a fair amount of effort to setup.