5/30/2023 0 Comments Netgear genie routerDisabling the Internet connection is exactly what I wanted to do. Since I never look at my router, the flashing LED wasn’t very useful. Under Traffic Control, you can now choose whether you want to actually disable the Internet connection if the limit is reached or if you just want to pop up a warning message and/or turn one of the LEDs on the router a flashing green and amber. This is up to you and really doesn’t matter as long as you remember it yourself. Under Traffic Counter, you need to pick a time and also a day for the traffic counter to reset. If you don’t know how much data you’re using with normal activity, you may set the limit too high or too low.Īfter this, there are a couple of more options to configure: It may be a good idea to first enable the traffic meter and see how much bandwidth is being used over a week or two and then decide the monthly limit. After this, you need to type in a number for the monthly data limit. If you choose Both directions the amount of data downloaded and uploaded will count towards the monthly MB limit. If you want to limit how much can be uploaded also, then choose Both directions. In my case, I just wanted to limit the amount of downloading, so I chose Download only. Otherwise, go ahead and click on the drop down box and you’ll see that you can limit downloads only or downloads and uploads (both directions): You can leave it like that if you just want to record bandwidth statistics and not limit the Internet usage. By default, it’s set to No limit, so the router will record traffic usage going through the router. So it’s better to use the Traffic volume control by option. For Connection time control, it will only work for PPPoE, PPTP, and L2TP connections. megabytes of data in a month or limit by time. Then you have two options: limit bandwidth by volume, i.e. The first thing you want to do is to enable traffic meter by checking the box at the very top. On newer versions with Netgear Genie, you need to click on the Advanced tab first, then Advanced Setup and you’ll find Traffic Meter close to the bottom.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |