AP Mode - Traffic Analyzer & Adaptive QoS

[DaMaN841]

Greetings Folks!

I run a Sophos UTM Environment with a RT-AC3200 and since I do not utilize most of the features provided by the RT-AC3200, I decided to enable AP Mode. That being said, as most of you know, this disables (rightfully so) a lot of the services extraneous to AP Mode. I was curious, however, if there would still be a way to track and visually display (graph) the statistics for the Wireless Interfaces; Host and/or Interface Tier.

Ideally, the ultimate goal would be to see, in Real-Time, a bandwidth graph/table for hosts, much like the Traffic Manager - Traffic Monitor, however, illustrated similarly to how the Adaptive QoS is represented and relative to the Maximum Bandwidth of the Wireless Interfaces, as opposed to the WAN Interface.

Realistically, however, enabling the Traffic Manager - Traffic Monitor in AP Mode would suffice.

 

[RMerlin]

An AP is only a bridge between the wifi and the rest of your network, so there's no real traffic monitoring that could be done there. Traffic monitoring has to be done at the router's level to be of any use.

 

[DaMaN841]

Understood. Does this mean, however, that when switching to AP Mode, that the firmware no longer exposes the individual Wireless Interfaces (2.4GHZ, 5GHZ-1, 5GHZ-2) or that those graphs are generated by the traffic monitoring at the router level? I'm simply curious if there is still some way to track interface usage/throughput.

Worst case scenario, I could connect the RT-AC3200 directly to a UTM Interface (as opposed to the Switch) and monitor Total Wireless Throughput at that Interface within the UTM; unfortunately less granular than each Wireless Band and would add additional (theoretical) stress on the UTM.

I'm not hoping for anything as meticulous as Ubiquiti, however, simply an idea of what each Wireless Interface is utilizing.

I appreciate and thank you for your response and explanation.

 

[RMerlin]

Understood. Does this mean, however, that when switching to AP Mode, that the firmware no longer exposes the individual Wireless Interfaces (2.4GHZ, 5GHZ-1, 5GHZ-2) or that those graphs are generated by the traffic monitoring at the router level? I'm simply curious if there is still some way to track interface usage/throughput.

Worst case scenario, I could connect the RT-AC3200 directly to a UTM Interface (as opposed to the Switch) and monitor Total Wireless Throughput at that Interface within the UTM; unfortunately less granular than each Wireless Band and would add additional (theoretical) stress on the UTM.

I'm not hoping for anything as meticulous as Ubiquiti, however, simply an idea of what each Wireless Interface is utilizing.

I appreciate and thank you for your response and explanation.

It has local interfaces, however they are bridged with the rest of the LAN. Nothing is routed, so the router can't keep track of what is going where.

 

[DaMaN841]

Understood. Thank you, RMerlin!

Perhaps the path of least resistance is simply to use Router Mode and disable unnecessary services, like the DHCP Server. The RT-AC3200 seems like it has a beefy enough CPU such that I shouldn't see much of a performance hit.