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Regarding if upstream service is needed for bandwidth usage history, as it needs computing power - well not at all. DD-WRT has basic banding report by days of month for close to 10 years [0]. I'm personally using it for 5+ years on a 20$ TP-Link and it just works, without the need of an external service.

[0] https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/images/3/3c/TrafficByMonth.Sampl...

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The ASUS/Trend Micro feature is not basic bandwidth reporting. Yeah, I've run this kind of basic reporting on a Raspberry Pi before - if that's all that you're tracking, not much processing power is required.

These routers are giving other breakdowns of the data - by device, by service, by application, etc. See sibling comment as well.

Edit: Screenshot of example: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s10/sh/0128aee2-dbae-48c3-b4d...

I don't see how its a cpu issue. The router definitely isn't sending every packet but some kind of aggregate already whether by port or something. My guess is that the upstream service just have the map from the aggregate to app (dropbox or whatever). Now this allows them up update the mapping as apps change or add new app tracking but that can be easily done through a firmware update if they really want to.

I don't disagree that this might make it easier for them to support the feature but definitely not essential. If it wasn't the culture of sending things out as much this would have been designed differently.

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