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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Broadband router question (Steve King)
2. Re: Broadband router question (Neil Baker)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:14:33 -0000
From: "Steve King" <debian@invux.com>
To: "Bristol and Bath Linux User Group" <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Broadband router question
Message-ID:
<5164c6b5167aa87f9d8b912faa0163a7.squirrel@dazzle.invux.com>
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Check the settings in your router's the web interface, or BT's information
on the model number of the homehub router to see if it supports SNMP.

Then use cacti{1} or something similar to generate pretty graphs or reports.

If it doesn't support SNMP, and a lot of bundled basic home kit{2} don't
any more, then it should be fairly easy/cheap to buy a replacement router
(~?20 for just adsl to ethernet, ~?50 if you want wireless too) which does
support SNMP, but check the router spec for SNMP support.

SNMP versions 1 and 2c are much easier to set up, (but less secure, at
least change the default community strings from 'publc' and 'private', and
block SNMP access from the internet, SNMP can be used as a fairly potent
application vector for a DDoS attack)

Footnotes:
{1}
[ In my experience, cacti is fiddly to set up for anything other network
hardware ]
{2}
[ I recently upgraded to FTTC, and the ISP supplied router web interface
doesn't even let you change the default network from 192.168.0.0/24
Fortunately linux is more than happy to connect directly using PPPoE ]

Regards,

--
Steve

> Hi all - I'm on BT for broadband, with a BT HomeHub router. Is it
> possible to replace
> the Homehub with an alternative device which measures and reports
> broadband
> usage across all devices, and is such a device available e..g. from Dabs
> or Maplin ?
>
> I'd like to be able to see the total DL usage in the last hour, for
> example.
> I have a variety of devices attached to the router, e.g. Windows, Linux,
> Android.
> I don't necessarily want the usage per device, just the total for all
> devices.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew M
>
>
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 11:02:51 +0000
From: Neil Baker <neil@sgsr.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Broadband router question
Message-ID: <5645C35B.8090505@sgsr.co.uk>
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On 13/11/15 09:33, bblug@gascoigne19.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> The short answer is 'yes'. Depending on your connection...
>
> If it's ADSL then *ANY* router that has an ADSL modem in it (and most of
> them are 2+ capable too) will 'just work' if you configure the settings (BT
> have a guide on this). If it's VDSL (FttC) then you need to ensure you get a
> router with a VDSL modem in it. Most VDSL connections are sold as "BT
> Infinity" or "BT Fibre".
>
> Check which type of connection you have, then grab a router that has the
> right modem internally. Alternatively if you happen to be on VDSL and can
> find someone who used to be and still has their OpenReach external modem,
> then you could plug that into any Ethernet-equipped router and it would work
> just as well through the WAN port (in fact I did this with my FttC
> connection and my old Draytek Ethernet router for a few years).
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bristol [mailto:bristol-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of
> Andrew McLean
> Sent: 13 November 2015 09:04
> To: LUG <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Subject: [bristol] Broadband router question
>
> Hi all - I'm on BT for broadband, with a BT HomeHub router. Is it possible
> to replace the Homehub with an alternative device which measures and reports
> broadband usage across all devices, and is such a device available e..g.
> from Dabs or Maplin ?
>
> I'd like to be able to see the total DL usage in the last hour, for example.
> I have a variety of devices attached to the router, e.g. Windows, Linux,
> Android.
> I don't necessarily want the usage per device, just the total for all
> devices.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew M
>
>
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> Bristol mailing list
> Bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bristol
>
>
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I have 'spare' Netgear N300 should you want it.
--
Neil Baker.
Tel: 0117 960 3967.
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Experience: knowing what not to do.



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