Hi all. Just resumed with Xtra as an ISP after a four-year trouble-free break with XNet (don't ask, maybe I'm masochistic), and I've suddenly discovered I can check my daily download usage. I'm gobsmacked to find that, over the first month, my download figures correspond with the files I've downloaded, but I've somehow UPLOADED nearly four gigs!
Now, I don't use Torrent, or file sharing, so nobody has access to my secure LAN, so WTF is going on here?
Xtra's helpdesk has no answer, except that 'Well, every time you click a link on Google, or TradeMe etc, it sends a request, and that constitutes an upload'. Say what!
Ok, I can accept that there may be a tiny amount of data in a link request, but my daily UPLOADS vary from a low of 25.77MB to a whopping 621.77MB!
That's crazy. Anyone able to comment?