could someone please advise me how on the physical conection staues page where you can see your active connections mine is showing TX and RX packets for both my ADSL and 4g connection, i have only had it set up for a couple of weeks and a few times i have noticed it shows actial data amount in MBs rather than packets , i have no idea how to make it always show this, as that info for me is far more usefull than "packets"

thanks for any assistance

just to clarify i am not after the speed as that is shown, but the amount of data in MBs i have used for upload and download

The online status > physical connection page shows low level info but the packets don't really represent actual data usage. Use the Diagnostics > Data Flow Monitor and Diagnostics > Traffic Graph for more useful information, especially the latter, which shows totals since the router was last rebooted. I think for a permanent bandwidth counter (that survives reboot), you'd need to use SNMP and something like PRTG to do that.