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Where is my bandwidth going? (Comcast related)
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Is there any program or means of determining exactly what compromises your data usage. Comcast seems to believe that - between watching 4 episodes of Battlestar Galactica and a few games of Warframe that I managed to use 30G's of data yesterday. It's entirely possible that Amazon Instant Video is dredging up all of that traffic, but I'd like to know for sure.
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Here is a photo of router info - not sure how reliable this is as a measure of usage. I'm guessing TxPkts/RxPkts is total bytes transferred and received?
If you are looking to see if someone is using your wifi, that chart isn't going to tell you anything in that regard as it lumps all your WLAN traffic together. You would need a list of connected hosts (both present and historical) for that.
For 3 hours of HD video streaming, and game playing, 30GB does not sound THAT unreasonable. Edit: Actually, it is pretty high. I fail at math. Is this an issue for some reason? I can't imagine Comcast is hounding you for using 30GBof data.
30GB for 3 hours of HD video streaming is pretty unreasonable. HD video averages 1-3GB/hour depending on actual quality. So even on the high side, that should only have been ~9GB in video that day, plus a little more for the games played, etc.
Depending on where he lives, Comcast may be getting on his case due to data caps. Those aren't in all markets, but some areas are limited to 300GB/month.
Yeah, my bad. I realized I did some pretty terrible multiplication earlier. Oops.
As for packet size, if I assume what 1mb per packet - that's still like 260GB's?
Right now I just want something that can tell me to the letter exactly what I am using and from where because I'm not really interested in getting in a fight with the only internet provider in town (AT&T is spotty - almost block by block in terms of availability).
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Erm. All of them? I have about 6 disc and most all digital. I hadn't thought about the auto-updates.
It only monitors programs running on the computer it's installed on, and I don't think it provides a history, but if you're trying to figure out whether it's your computer consuming the bandwidth or not, this is a good place to start to rule out massive background downloads or something like that.