Archer C7 - Traffic Statistics counters roll over at 4GB
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Archer C7 - Traffic Statistics counters roll over at 4GB
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In the Status page, there is a Traffic Statistics section which counts total traffic in/out of the WAN. While attempting to measure my total household bandwidth, I found that these counters will roll over once they reach 4GB of traffic counted. Given that many normal households will use 4GB of traffic in under a day, this means the Traffic Statistics feature is broken. I have watched this rollover happen in real-time.
I suspect the same incorrect behavior happens in the Statistics page under System Tools. I have not verified a rollover there, but there are no entries with values larger than 4GB.
I'm 99.9% certain that the root cause is that the router firmware uses an unsigned-32-bit value to count traffic byes, rather than an unsigned-64-bit value. Should be an EXTREMELY simple software change. Please fix!! If this were an open source project I'd do it myself. :)
Hardware Version :
Firmware Version :
ISP :
In the Status page, there is a Traffic Statistics section which counts total traffic in/out of the WAN. While attempting to measure my total household bandwidth, I found that these counters will roll over once they reach 4GB of traffic counted. Given that many normal households will use 4GB of traffic in under a day, this means the Traffic Statistics feature is broken. I have watched this rollover happen in real-time.
I suspect the same incorrect behavior happens in the Statistics page under System Tools. I have not verified a rollover there, but there are no entries with values larger than 4GB.
I'm 99.9% certain that the root cause is that the router firmware uses an unsigned-32-bit value to count traffic byes, rather than an unsigned-64-bit value. Should be an EXTREMELY simple software change. Please fix!! If this were an open source project I'd do it myself. :)
