What does the router do when establishing a new broadband connection?
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What does the router do when establishing a new broadband connection?
09-06-2011 9:04 AM
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I have recently switched to PN and received my brand spanking new TG585 v8 I was scheduled to be connected by PN on the 26th "any time up to midnight" and that is apparently what happened, connected at midnight I mean.
So next day the 27th at around 6am I turned the TG585v8 on and it did its thing. Bear in mind that the family have not been given any passwords for the Wifi yet so it is just me at the desktop next to the router.
my question is that when I check my usage i have been hit by 1.8GB of download for that first day. Does the TG do any heavy downloading during setup? i dont think anything else was happening until I gave the family the passwords the next day.
my normal daily usage is 900MB max with many days around 300MB.
Any other alternative suggestions as to what may have been happening during a new customers activities?
I think the extra 1GB may just push me over the threshold for my tarrif and I may be stuck with a £5 fine! Nice welcom to PN!
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Re: What does the router do when establishing a new broadband connection?
09-06-2011 9:41 AM
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Re: What does the router do when establishing a new broadband connection?
09-06-2011 9:49 AM
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You can find this out easily by looking at the wireless light on your router. It should be flashing either green or yellow; if it is flashing red then your network is not password protected.
Re: What does the router do when establishing a new broadband connection?
09-06-2011 9:52 AM
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@PeterLoftus
Has your computer been disconnected from the internet for a while prior to this? It may be that you had a significant amount of updates for Windows and other programs to download?
Re: What does the router do when establishing a new broadband connection?
09-06-2011 9:52 AM
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Dont think so, it was the first day and this is a rural residential area. nobody would be aware of a new WiFi link. Besides isn't the Thompson product suppose to have the best security? Would it really happen when ther was not much happening other than me playing with the network I mean off - on - off - on
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Re: What does the router do when establishing a new broadband connection?
09-06-2011 9:57 AM
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Chris I have a thought. My wife doesn't like automatic updates, so when I go on the desktop I tend to do all the Windows updates at once. A possibility!
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Re: What does the router do when establishing a new broadband connection?
09-06-2011 10:04 AM
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The router installation went OK although I was trying to connect for several hours on the 26th before success early morning on the 27th. then it seemed to take an age to set itself up.
But finally all the lights are the correct colour and I sure my security is as intended by PN
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Re: What does the router do when establishing a new broadband connection?
09-06-2011 10:07 AM
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Quote from: PeterLoftus Chris I have a thought. My wife doesn't like automatic updates, so when I go on the desktop I tend to do all the Windows updates at once. A possibility!
Depedning on when this was last run, I suspect it's more than a possibility
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Re: What does the router do when establishing a new broadband connection?
09-06-2011 10:38 AM
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Re: What does the router do when establishing a new broadband connection?
09-06-2011 10:44 AM
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09-06-2011 10:58 AM
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Re: What does the router do when establishing a new broadband connection?
09-06-2011 3:50 PM
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I've been investigating this thoroughly and can't see any discrepancies with the usage reporting. I can't really comment on what might have been going on on your machine as it would only be guess-work but can guarantee the usage is correct for that day.
Jojo
Re: What does the router do when establishing a new broadband connection?
09-06-2011 4:27 PM
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but i hope you can see where I am coming from.
This is my first month with PN, having told my wife that I had done the research and i had a good package for phone and broadband at a fraction of the price of our previous arrangements. It looks on the usage page as if something different happened on the first day and at the end of the month we may go over our max usage and have to pay the extra £5.
What I need to get straight is.. After using your tool on your website and my experience I made my estimate of the correct tariff to use.
Is this 1.8MB daily usage a one off? Its only happened once in two weeks and on the first day. If it happens again I'm on the wrong tariff and we joined PN on a wrong premise.
This month I look like paying a £5 penalty and I will need to explain that to my wife, after convincing her about the good deal I had got. It doesn't look good.! And I cant see why it happened. If I don't know how can I plan so similar effects don't happen again.
Regards
Peter
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Re: What does the router do when establishing a new broadband connection?
09-06-2011 4:42 PM
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You don''t have to go over, you can set it not to via the data transfer watch. I'm not sure what to say about what may have happened but it would only be guess-work as I said before.
Jojo
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