topic Re: Hub 2 - need clarification on the hub's reported Data Usage in My Router

Hub 2 - need clarification on the hub's reported Data Usage

redulike — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:05:32 GMT

I have a Hub2. It's with FTTP but don't think that is important here.

I was just looking through the Hub settings (ie Home - Advanced settings - Broadband ) and noticed what i thought was unexpectedly high (at least to me!) upstream data usage compared to downstream :-

Data usage: 33.2 GB Uploaded / 146.7 GB Downloaded

Can anyone confirm that the 33.2GB does indeed relate to data going out to the outside world, and not to any data between my local networked devices?

Cheers

Red

Re: Hub 2 - need clarification on the hub's reported Data Usage

PhilipHeyes — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:23:03 GMT

I would say those are the figures for the data to / from the WAN i.e. the public internet.

Got some live streaming CCTVs or a family member with a Torrent server or even cloud backups.

Re: Hub 2 - need clarification on the hub's reported Data Usage

markhawkin — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:51:36 GMT

Looking at my statistics, upload being 20% of download is where my Plusnet connection sits at the moment over a couple of weeks.

I would say the significant upstream traffic generator is working from home and (in particular) Microsoft Teams use.

Re: Hub 2 - need clarification on the hub's reported Data Usage

AyToZed — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:34:38 GMT

Due to my WAN connection being restarted last night (BT or Plusnet doing something), I can report only a slightly less than 24 hour period.

Up - 21.9MB

Down - 278.2MB

Another thing you might want to look at

Home -> My Devices or Home - > advanced -> My devices

You should see Up and Down values for each device.

A restart of a WAN link won't clear these. (Disconnecting and removing the device or rebooting the Hub2 will)

In my case some examples

VoIP phone - 403MB up, 305MN down

PC - 5.1GB up, 67.9GB down

(managed) switch - 0B up, 0B down (I've not connected to the switch over IP since the last reboot of the Hub2).

Therefore I have to conclude that the figures from Home - Advanced settings - Broadband is network traffic leaving and entering the home (i.e. no local LAN traffic).

Re: Hub 2 - need clarification on the hub's reported Data Usage

Ian06 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:59:11 GMT

Our usage over a week:

Upload 2.4GB Download 42.4GB

We only do emails, internet browsing and radio/TV streaming. Nobody Working From Home and No Gaming....

Re: Hub 2 - need clarification on the hub's reported Data Usage

redulike — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:26:28 GMT

Thanks all for helping confirm all that data is from Hub to the outside world.

I'll check out what devices are responsible , and why, just in case it's affecting general wi-fi response times. What makes this more tricky is that some devices are used by two users, so it might be down to what they are individually doing/using.

I'm curious in case some 'apps', or OSs, are using my devices to distribute data around the country.

So that's all in this thread. Might need to open another thread if I discover anything interesting .

Cheers for now

Red

Re: Hub 2 - need clarification on the hub's reported Data Usage

markhawkin — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:01:44 GMT

Unless you have any file sharing or similar software running I doubt you are being used as a source of traffic to others.

It’s possible that some virus or infection is generating traffic and it would be worth taking a look at computers using virus checking software ( I wouldn’t suspect phones) but I think what you are seeing is what is normal with the modern “cloud” world.

Re: Hub 2 - need clarification on the hub's reported Data Usage

Ian06 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:14:18 GMT

@markhawkin wrote: I think what you are seeing is what is normal with the modern “cloud” world.

Yes I would check what Windows is doing (if you use it - it keeps wanting to back up my PC to the microsoft cloud for me.) Also my iPhone wants to back up stuff to the cloud as well.

I generally try to turn these off as I am not sure I want anyone (esp. Microsoft) keeping my data "safe" for me online.