crazy traffic usage numbers in Tether
crazy traffic usage numbers in Tether
I'm having trouble understanding what Tether is telling me when I look at Traffic Usage for my EasyMesh network. See the screenshot. It claims that device downloaded 1.4 TB and uploaded 15.5 TB today. The device is a smart thermostat connected the 2.4GHz wifi. it would be pretty impressive to transmit that amount of data over that band. Tether says the total data usage is 3.4 MB, which is more realistic.
I know what you are thinking, because I thought about it myself: that device has been hacked and is now spewing something bad to the Internet. The thing is, I've been seeing this most days since I installed my TP-Link routers about a week ago, but the offending device is not always the same one. I think it's got to be the case that those TB figures are not telling me the truth.
Does anyone have any insight about this? Or, does anybody else see this kind of odd behavior?
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When I logged on to check the firmware versions, I found that there were updates available for all of the routers in my mesh. I've just updated them all. Here are the firmware versions:
Firmware Version 1.0.5 Build 20250519 rel.35329(5553)
Hardware Version Archer BE9700 v1.0
Latest Firmware Version 1.0.7 Build 20251027 rel.50074
Archer AX21
1.1.2 Build 20250115 Rel. 56488
1.1.3 Build 20250904 Rel. 60739
Archer BE230
1.2.1 Build 20250804 rel.79639
1.2.5 Build 20260108 rel.68570
It's too soon to say if that matters for the traffic volumes. It currently shows the past 3 days totals of 3.4pb download and 1pb upload (pretty impressive; you't think that would melt the wires :-)).
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After a couple days with the updated firmware, the traffic numbers are still crazy, but not as crazy as before. It's back to the terabit range instead of petabits that it was earlier in the week.
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Hello @WJCarpenter ,
Thanks for contacting us again.
Have you tried this beta firmware? Archer BE550 Pro_V2/Archer BE9700_V1_1.0.7 Build 20260203(Beta Firmware)
As I know, the 1.1.1 will be released, which will fix this anomaly. So you can also wait for the new 1.1.1 version.
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@Joseph-TP thanks for the info. I haven't tried that beta. I think I'll just wait for the official release.
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