Small device for per-IP address bandwith monitoring

RouterOS General
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I’d like to monitor per-IP address internet traffic in a LAN with about ten hosts, the connection is ADSL.
I have a basic knowledge of networking but no experience whatsoever with RouterOS.
Ideally I’d like to pick a RB, put it between the actual router and switch and have it doing routing and monitoring. The less configuration the better.


  1. Can RouterOS keep per-IP address statistics?
  2. Is RB750 powerful enough for the task?
  3. If not what device would you recommend?
  4. How many data could the device store?
  5. Would a device with a bigger RAM amount like RB450 be advisable?
  6. Do I have to pull the data from a client in the LAN or can I install a periodically push the data on a remote host from the device itself using ssh?

This is sort of like this thread but I’d be installing the device in this case.

Any thought appreciated.

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Use simple queues per each client ip.

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Thanks for the reply, I assume you’re saying that the RB750 is good enough for the task.

I see you are referring to this by saying “use simple queues”. Do queues allow to keep track of the exchanged data?

Do I have to manually create per-IP address queues or is there a “catch-all” command that will create a queue per each new IP address it sees?