bandwidth meter?
Does anyone know of a bandwith meter available where I can check how much bandwidth is being used by other computers or devices on my wireless network? I cant figure out how my family is using 10GB of...
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1492 wrote:camperpaul wrote:
You have just described the symptom of a virus infection.
The virus is called Win 8 tiles updating.
The cure is to turn off all tiles updates.
Not to discount a possible virus or malware, but to say WIN 8 tile updates is a virus and burning through 10G of data in two days is a pure fantasy.
Try installing the free NetWorx utility. Under Usage Reports, there is a tab that monitors data usage by individual applications.
I'm using the Networx utility. It's nice but still leaves you wondering about what's using the data. For instance, it might tell me that my browser has used xGB of data but doesn't tell me what each website has used so I'm still guessing how I really get close to my limit each month.
One of my chief suspects is all the mini-video on FB and Yahoo, whether it's user videos or embedded ads. I found a tip that I'm testing now and seems to be helping. If you're using Chrome as your browser there's an option in advanced settings, privacy, content settings, plug-ins to select 'click to play' instead of Run Automatically. I just found that a few days ago and I'm still testing but it looks like my usage has dropped significantly.
I noticed when running FB in IE11 that friends videos would just automatically start playing when I scrolled past them so I contacted FB to allow us poor users to disable that feature, not sure that will ever happen so now I only visit FB in Chrome.
