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Usage monitor gone mad

glloyd — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:43:32 GMT

Something very odd is going on with the usage monitor - My usage has jumped from 4-5GB a month to 24GB last month yet appart from a couple of films my usage has not changed. Take this week for example.
Sun 1.57GB
Mon 2.08GB
Tue 58.65Mb
Wed 58.81Mb
Thur 2,9GB
My usage each day has been the same, if fact yesterday appart from a couple of hours browsing in the morning I hardly used anything yet it is showing 2.9GB. Same thing applies to Sunday and Monday. In all the years I've had BB my usage has hardly ever gone above 4,5GB a Month noe it has shot up doing what I've always done.

Re: Usage monitor gone mad

PiLoT — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 11:38:50 GMT

A few things too look aout for
Is you wifi network secure, if not other people can access it and start downloading using your router
if you leave a llist of website you frequent i can point out which ones are bandwidth high

Re: Usage monitor gone mad

adamwalker — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:33:08 GMT

Assuming you've considered PiLoT's advice, performing some packet capture using for example something like wireshark could help give us a clearer idea of what is taking up so much bandwidth.
Let me know if you need some advice if you decide to give that a try.

Re: Usage monitor gone mad

glloyd — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:58:45 GMT

Problem is I don't know the bandwidth has been used until I check. I change the PW on my wirless router on a regular basis and use WPA2 encoding so I very much doubt it's getting pinched.

Re: Usage monitor gone mad

adamwalker — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:11:43 GMT

In that case giving this a try might be a good idea:
http://www.wireshark.org/
You'd need to send the capture files to us once done but this would help analyse your traffic and identify what's increasing your usage.

Re: Usage monitor gone mad

jelv — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:32:41 GMT

If you are running PCs a simple watch of the usage might point you in the right direction: http://www.softperfect.com/products/networx/ (even if all it does is eliminate certain PCs as being the problem).