monitor user bandwidth usage (dd wrt routers only)
 

want to find out who is hogging you broadband connection and downloading/uploading

The following is a script written by someone on ddwrt forum to collect and display individual usage on your ddwrt router. This is great if you want to know who is hogging the bandwidth at home.

unzip attached file, using WinSCP connect to your ddwrt router and download the 2 files to the /tmp folder - chmod both files to have execute permissions

create a new txt file in the /tmp folder names macs.txt - This is used to map mac addresses to hostname - format of file is

macaddress,hostname,

now ssh to the ddwrt router, navigate to /tmp folder and run the collect.sh script

you will see following in your console Window

Please wait...
Updating Database
Publish Data To Web Page
Setting Up Bandwidth Monitor
Reading Bandwidth Monitor Data
Please wait...
Updating Database
Publish Data To Web Page
Setting Up Bandwidth Monitor
Reading Bandwidth Monitor Data
Please wait...

To view the data navigate to http://router_ip/user/usage.html

if you reboot the router you will loose the usage data and the script (as its stored in the tmp folder).

Copy back the files in the zip file to the router again - or write a script to download the files again on a reboot of the router, The usage data is stored in a file usage.db in the /tmp folder - you can modify the script to upload the file to your pc as a backup - so if you need to reboot you can restore the backed up usage data file.

files can be found in this thread http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12...ng-letter.html (post 26)