Simple data usage monitoring

RouterOS General
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Hi,

I’m sharing an ADSL line on my home network. The pppoe connection is “dialed” by my Routerboard 450G.
I’m wondering if there’s a simple way to monitor internet data usage from the various computers on my network?
All I want to know is how much data each PC transferred over the pppoe, I don’t need the PC’s to be disconnected upon reaching certain limits or anything like that.

So far I’ve been looking at using the “Traffic Flow” feature along with ntop but it’s really quite complex and overkill for my needs.
Although it may also just be ntop which is over complicating the matter, in that case does anyone know of any similar but much more simple utility?

Any ideas?
Thanks :slight_smile:

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I’ve found a solution, I’m using “NetworkEye” (http://neye.unsupported.info/) it’s a simple netflow collector that can dump the information in a mysql database. :slight_smile:

Then I just wrote a simple PHP based script that grabs the relevant data and determines the internet data usage for all local IP’s.
I’d be happy to share the code with anyone also looking for a simple solution. :slight_smile:

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you can use queues and graphing.
looks like (and probably is) mrtg.