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[ithilis]

Hi there,

I have been seeing some excessive spikes (14-20gb on some days) in bandwidth usage over the past month via my ISPs bandwidth monitoring tool. The problem is, their tool only shows me day-by-day usage, which doesn't help me determine where and when all that bandwidth is being eaten up.

I started noticing the spikes when my two kids started playing in the beta for the new Gears of War game on the Xbox 360. They each have their own 360, and they play together online for 2-3 hours every evening. However, in the past, the Xbox 360 hasn't been an issue, typically only eating up about 50-100mb/hour per system, so I'm not sure where the activity is coming from.

Anyhow, I wanted to know if there was anyway to monitor the wireless bandwidth, or bandwidth of any kind through the DIR-655. I know that you can view the packets in the Status - Statistics page, but that only shows packets, not bytes.

I'd greatly appreciate your assistance in this matter! I have a 95 GB limit through my ISP, so this is getting rather painful on my wallet.

[FurryNutz]

Wow, I wish I had a 95Gb ISP Package. I only got 10Mb and works well for me and my 2 xboxes.
Not really much out there for watching bandwidth on the router man. I would do the following, head over to the DGL-4500 forum and look at the gaming and gamefuel sticky there. I recommend setting up QoS using the data contained in those stickies for your 2 xboxes. Prioritize them and your other devices so that XBL gaming wont hog up the bandwidth for other devices while gaming. LOL. Let us know if you need more help.

[ithilis]

Okay, I'll give that a shot, thanks!

However, as a fellow owner of two Xbox consoles, do you have an idea of how much bandwidth they pull per hour during heavy gaming sessions? I was under the impression that it was roughy 50mb/hour, despite Microsoft's official page quoting it as 15-20mb/hour.

I wish there was a feature in the DIR-655 firmware to monitor bandwidth, or at least toggle between packets and bytes in the statistics.

[FurryNutz]

couldn't tell you what they actually pull down and use per hour. I really don't think it would be that much. However who know about some of these games coming out now days. 

I know this:
Wired is best for game consoles.
I have a buddy who has 3 consoles, 2 wired and 1 on wireless G. All work great on his 6Mb DSL ISP.
Another buddy of mine here in town has 3 xboxes on 10Mb cable along with other devices.

You might try to connect up some 3rd party monitoring SW on windows and connect the xboxes to a switch along with the Pc and see if you can get any data while there gaming. Not sure if the SW would pick up the traffic from the switch or not since it probably only looks at the PC NIC traffic. Might need an actual HUB instead of a switch to detect all network traffic and monitor bandwidth.

Honestly, if the 95Mb package is getting spendy, you might try get a lower package. Having 2 xboxes online with a lower package should work just as good as a higher package.