traffic analyzer statistics for devices on an access point

[gt1990]

New user here. I apologize in advance for any stupid questions.

I have an Asus RT-AC56U running Merlin 378.56_2 as a primary router. Lets call this router MASTER. I have an older RT-N56U connected via cable serving as an access point. Lets call this router SLAVE. The set up has been running for many months and the traffic statistics by device has been invaluable (house full of teens bumping up against the ISP limit all claiming it wasn't them).

Yesterday the SLAVE/RT-N56U decided to do a full reset all by itself - stopped broadcasting the SSIDs I had set up and basically started broadcasting an unsecure "ASUS" SSID. Luckily, said teens made me aware of this the second it happened so I jumped on and reconfigured the router.

Now this is where it gets interesting. I can no longer see devices logged into the SLAVE/RT-N56U when looking at the network map on the MASTER/RT-AC56U. I am 90% certain I could see these devices before and I am 100% certain that I could see the usage statistics in the traffic analyzer. Since the MASTER/RT-AC56U is assigning IPs, wouldn't it be aware of all devices and also gather usage statistics on them (like it did before)? My question is this: I can't remember exactly what settings I had before but it did everything I wanted - I used the quick set up to configure the SLAVE/RT-N56U as an access point this time - are there any settings, on either router, that I should be using to do what I want?

 

[apf888]

Yeah, it should be. I have a very similar setup with an AC66U (master) and a Linksys E2000 (slave, though manually configured since there is no wizard for it). If the N56U is indeed acting as an Access Point (AP), it should be just acting as a wireless bridge and converting the wireless signals into wired signals for the AC56U. And since the AC56U is still acting as the gateway to the internet, it should be able to see all the traffic stats.

I would double-check to make sure under Administration that the N56U really is set up as "AP" and not "IP Sharing" or "Router" (which is default). Also, verify the subnet and gateway on the client PCs (if it's on a different subnet, it's probably in router mode).

EDIT: On N56U, the default might be called "IP Sharing" and "Router" might mean something else compared to what you usually see on newer ASUS or Merlin builds...