WNR2000 router and recording the bandwith traffic

[Northenlad60]

Hi,

I have a query that I was hoping could be answered by someone on here.

Basically, I have 3 hope computers that are used by may family (two connected via wire and one via wi-fi). I also have 5 students that share our house (these are not paying students, as we put them up until they can find their footings).

The problem I have is that over the course of the month we have a very large amount of traffic. Our IPS has allowed us a 40GB per month free and anything over this is to be paid for. The issue rises where I have a nice bill coming in now and everyone is saying it is not them doing downloads.
Last month 27GB over the 40GB
This month 57GB over the 40GB

I advised the students that any streaming via whatever website also adds to this, but everyone is saying they are not doing this.

I want to have my router record the bandwith traffic from each MAC or IP on the home network, and wondered if this was possible?

If not, how can I best record this, so I can see what is taking up all this traffic?

Kindest regards

Richard

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[midsail]

Hello Northenlad60 your router has several built in features to control access to the internet. I have the same router and use it feature to block, filter and control access for the young ones in the family. Here is the link to Netgear support
http://kb.netgear.com/app/

just type wnr 2000 and select which version of the router you have.