Re: High broadband usage - why?

[Stephen McGarry <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lot's of fancy software solutions! but how about changing to an
'unlimited'=
broadband package. I have just changed to=20
unlimited fibre with Plusnet for =A320 a  month and they do unlimited ADSL
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for =A310

Stephen
<http://www.plus.net/myreferrals/new.html?intReferrerID%3D00404311>
will go=
to their website. (and if you sign up I get=20
a kick back!)
P.S. Plusnet have an offer of up to 1 years broadband at half price...
P.P.S have been using Plusnet for >10 years...

On 02/04/13 20:16, Tim Hawes wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have a bit of a puzzler with our home ADSL connection. We previously
we=
re
> on a package with a 10GB download cap which we just managed to stay
under=
.
> A few months ago we upgraded to a 40GB cap package and in March just
gone=
,
> including a 10 day holiday away, we used 38-odd GB.
>
> I re-set the traffic monitor on my router yesterday (or perhaps Sunday
ev=
e)
> and already this month we've used over 4GB !!!
> Last night 14 sessions were "active" although with next to
no bandwidth
> consumed, but why aren't they silent.
>
> We don't have an online TV/movies subscription and don't do anything
> "fancy"; mostly web browsing and email. The kids do like
iPlayer and
> youtube, but can these really be responsible for the high download
usage?
>
> How can I monitor what is eating up the download allowance? Ideally
> something that can report usage by website by device, so I can
determine
> whether it's an iTouch, desktop PC, a rouge device interloping on my
> allowance, or a dodgy application that is chatting way too much.
> And of course, ideally free and easy to set up ;-)
>
> Router is a Vigor 2820n if that helps with any solutions.
>
> All thoughts welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Tim.
>
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