Collecting Wifi usage statistics?

[Erica Cathers]

I'm wondering what methods other libraries use to collect statistics for the
use of their public wifi hotspots.

Our router allows me to choose which day of the month the traffic counter
resets, but I can't turn the resetting completely off to let it cumulate.
Once it has reset, the statistics for the previous period are lost. The
small window of opportunity would make it very difficult to catch the stats
consistently. Even if we managed to record them, I'm not sure whether the
number of megabytes uploaded and downloaded would be very meaningful,
anyway.

Can anyone recommend a router that is set up better for collecting
statistics? Or software we could use (preferably free)? If you are able to
count individual users and record the times of usage, how do you do it? We
know some people sit outside our building to use the wifi signal when we're
closed, but it would be interesting to know how much this is going on.

Thanks for any tips you can send my way.

Erica Cathers

Gloucester City Public Library (NJ)


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