<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 03:54 Alex Carver via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 2019-05-29 05:39, James Sumners via Ale wrote:<br>
> I'm trying to research alternatives to Ubiquiti's UniFi product line<br>
> because they don't currently support bandwidth usage history recording, and<br>
> don't seem to be adding it in any sort of hurry, and came across this paper<br>
> -- <a href="https://www.cogentoa.com/article/10.1080/23311916.2018.1469949/references" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.cogentoa.com/article/10.1080/23311916.2018.1469949/references</a><br>
> . It's a survey of some 40+ articles that are looking into how Software<br>
> Defined Networking (which is what the UniFi line really is) can be used in<br>
> the home. I'm about 10 pages into this paper and am noticing a disturbing<br>
> theme I thought you guys would be interested in: the surveyed papers seem<br>
> to lean toward shunting off the controller to the ISP. Want to enable QoS<br>
> for streaming video and VoIP? No problem. Just let the ISP inspect your<br>
> traffic and provide you with new tiers of service priced accordingly.<br>
> <br>
> This is not the rabbit hole I was hoping to find.<br>
> <br>
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The bandwidth and usage data is available if you run the Unifi<br>
Controller software and bind the AP to it. It gives you data on a<br>
per-client and per-AP basis.</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Not what I’m looking for. I need month to month history on the WAN interface. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">James Sumners<br><a href="http://james.sumners.info/" target="_blank">http://james.sumners.info/</a> (technical profile)<br><a href="http://jrfom.com/" target="_blank">http://jrfom.com/</a> (personal site)<br><a href="http://haplo.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">http://haplo.bandcamp.com/</a> (music)</div>