Bandwidth being used even when connection is down

wonderboy on 22/06/2014 - 10:02
Last edited 22/06/2014 - 10:02

Lately I've been monitoring my bandwidth and I am noticing a lot of irregularities. For example My Bigpond usage meter says I've already used 11GB today. https://i.imgur.com/0nPxnqD.png
This is complete bullshit since I turned off wifi and the only LAN connection is to my computer which I have disabled since I've been using my Vodafone sim for the weekend. I don't even know why it says 7GB used yesterday (21st June) since I didn't have it connected and the other people in my house only have ipads and use it for Facebook mostly.

I will call telstra soon. Currently I am using a couple of tools to see who is on my connection also monitoring speeds and bandwidth. There is no outside connection from neighbours and speeds/bandwidth are much lower than Bingpond's meter.

Anyone else have this problem and are there any fixes?

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    • wonderboy on 22/06/2014 - 10:46

      Would you happen to have a link to the article?

      I checked the usage meter again and the 11GB used today has changed to 400MB. Good that it's a lot lower but 400MB is still a lot for something that hasn't even been used.

  • Geekomatic on 22/06/2014 - 14:59

    I'd also make sure no one is on tumblr…I couldn't figure out where our usage was going until I checked to find my daughter was aimlessly scrolling hundreds of tumblr pages (all images & .gifs) per hour!!

    Skype also uses bandwidth, even when no one is using it.

    Good luck

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