Do Cable Companies Fake Data Useage
My cable company website says I have been using around 12 gigabytes/month of data lately for my internet service. This sounds weird as we don't stream movies or download photos. We send maybe 2 -3 e...
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One factor is this: Have you upgraded a computer lately
Another: What kind of "protection" do you use on your computer.
Two things will up your data usage big time
First: (Chronologically) is Mal-ware.. Many virus, worm and trojan programs like to burn up your bandwidth by either sending themselves to others from your computer or by "phoning home" or otherwise using your internet... You can read the story of one such program at www.grc.com if i got the URL right (Gibson Research) Seems someone tried to shut down his internet service by infecting hundreds of computers with a BOT (Robotic program) that flooded his system with PINGS.. The story is actually a bit funny... But I won't tell it beyond the above. But many people saw an increase in their data usage due to this illegal criminal attack on Steve (and on them for that matter).
And this was a minor infection as infections go.
Steve also tells you what to do about it, he is the expert, not me so..
Next is the latest virus ware.. Windows 8.1. (not sure about 8.0 or 7 as I've not used those) windows 8.1 has changed many programs to "APPS" and many of these APPS feature "live tiles" a Live tile is constantly updating itself, Displaying different graphics, some of these use bandwith, some just access the hard drive. I went though all my unwanted Apps which I can not get rid of and hate for the most part and turned off Live Tiles.. (Deleted those I could delete and disabled a few more).
Finally we have things you did not know burn bandwidth.. True story: Was in a campground family/internet center and had to help several log on as the router had run out of addresses (So I set them up manually outside the DHCP range).. Finally got inspired and tried to log in to the router as administrator (Yup, they took it out of the box and plugged it in, that's all so I was successful as the Default password worked) Turns out it only had a 50 address DHCP range, upped it to 100 (Which by the way Linksys recommends) and that made it better, but the next day I'm helping a young lady connect. I explained the problem, logged in and viewed the user list, as I did so: When they first put this in it was only laptops that used it, and the speed and connectivity were great, but today we have Laptops, Game machines, PDAs, Tablets, and even... Here's one: Suzie's I Phone" cell phones.
She reached in her purse... yup, she was Suzie.
Your phones may be burning bandwidth as well, again live tiles, and voice over IP calls.
Another: What kind of "protection" do you use on your computer.
Two things will up your data usage big time
First: (Chronologically) is Mal-ware.. Many virus, worm and trojan programs like to burn up your bandwidth by either sending themselves to others from your computer or by "phoning home" or otherwise using your internet... You can read the story of one such program at www.grc.com if i got the URL right (Gibson Research) Seems someone tried to shut down his internet service by infecting hundreds of computers with a BOT (Robotic program) that flooded his system with PINGS.. The story is actually a bit funny... But I won't tell it beyond the above. But many people saw an increase in their data usage due to this illegal criminal attack on Steve (and on them for that matter).
And this was a minor infection as infections go.
Steve also tells you what to do about it, he is the expert, not me so..
Next is the latest virus ware.. Windows 8.1. (not sure about 8.0 or 7 as I've not used those) windows 8.1 has changed many programs to "APPS" and many of these APPS feature "live tiles" a Live tile is constantly updating itself, Displaying different graphics, some of these use bandwith, some just access the hard drive. I went though all my unwanted Apps which I can not get rid of and hate for the most part and turned off Live Tiles.. (Deleted those I could delete and disabled a few more).
Finally we have things you did not know burn bandwidth.. True story: Was in a campground family/internet center and had to help several log on as the router had run out of addresses (So I set them up manually outside the DHCP range).. Finally got inspired and tried to log in to the router as administrator (Yup, they took it out of the box and plugged it in, that's all so I was successful as the Default password worked) Turns out it only had a 50 address DHCP range, upped it to 100 (Which by the way Linksys recommends) and that made it better, but the next day I'm helping a young lady connect. I explained the problem, logged in and viewed the user list, as I did so: When they first put this in it was only laptops that used it, and the speed and connectivity were great, but today we have Laptops, Game machines, PDAs, Tablets, and even... Here's one: Suzie's I Phone" cell phones.
She reached in her purse... yup, she was Suzie.
Your phones may be burning bandwidth as well, again live tiles, and voice over IP calls.
