Is the AC87R/U traffic monitor really this inaccurate?

[goldenegg]

I ws checking the Traffic Monitor for the first time today and the readings are absolutely bonkers.

I tried disabling NAT acceleration, but it won't let me. If I choose 'disable' from the drop down, it just stays at 'AUTO'.

Does anyone else see this behaviour? There's no way I'm transferring that much data, especially for outbound packets. When I took the above screenshot, none of my devices were even doing anything on the internet.

 

[fax]

You are not alone, which firmware version are you running? There has been several fixes to traffic monitor in recent beta versions. See for example here: http://www.snbforums.com/threads/rt-ac87u_3-0-0-4_378_5556-unofficial-beta-firmware.24462/

Latest beta here: http://www.snbforums.com/threads/rt-ac87u_3-0-0-4_378_5587-unofficial-beta-firmware.24492/

But you need a reset to factory default after the update and insert all settings manually (no restore of CFG file).

 

[goldenegg]

I'm running the 5587 beta and did a reset both prior to flashing the beta and after. All settings were manually entered after.

 

[fax]

Here works OK, I am afraid that under your specific conditions/settings traffic monitor does still not work correctly ...

 

[easycure1974]

Have the same problem running the same beta

 

[goldenegg]

I was having a problem with my cable modem last night, so I did a full factory reset on it. After reseting the cable modem, I'm not longer getting strange values returned in the traffic monitor. It appears to now be showing real values.

 

[goldenegg]

At first i had my ISP modem plugged in on LAN1, but i changed that to LAN2 and not the spikes are gone.

Why aren't you putting your modem in to bridge mode and plugging it in to the WAN port?