Guides

Get more out of PeakHour

Practical walkthroughs for setup, diagnosis, and getting the most insight out of your network measurements.

Setup

Choosing a monitoring source

SNMP, UPnP, or local interface — how PeakHour collects bandwidth data and which option fits your router.

Setup

Setting up SNMP on your router

Enabling SNMP v2c or v3 on common routers (Asus, Synology, OPNsense, MikroTik) and pointing PeakHour at it.

Using PeakHour

Reading the PeakHour graph

What the bars, the throughput trace, and the latency overlay are telling you — and where to look first.

Troubleshooting

Diagnosing a slow connection

Walking through the path view to pinpoint packet loss, jitter, and which hop is responsible.

Using PeakHour

Monitoring multiple connections

Setting up additional targets — a second ISP, a remote server, or a VPN endpoint — and switching between them.

Using PeakHour

Exporting and sharing data

Saving snapshots, copying graphs, and exporting raw measurements for analysis.

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