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Nerdherder

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#195769 3-May-2016 12:46
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Hi all.

 

I'm a layman, and I have tried a seach, to be bamboozled by the results.

 

Basicaly we are on 40GB fibre. We used to be on 40GB adsl, and we had plenty spare, to the point where our carryover was up to 200GB at one point.

 

We are hitting full allocation usage now within about 2 weeks, without any significant alteration in actual usage.

 

I am thinking there must be some method of installing an internet connection monitor somehow, that would allow us to view where all the data usage is coming from.

 

I recently hid our Wifi SSID, customised the name and changed the password.

 

 

 

What I can't figure out is how I could hook up *something/anything* to monitor traffic through the fibre connection, when 2 phones, 2 laptops are on wifi and streaming pc on lan attached to the wifi router, then into the lan of the fibre router.

 

 

 

Secondly, my partner is working over dropbox, not sure if this is a red flag for high usage?

 

 

 

Any help appreciated!


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  #1545987 3-May-2016 13:11
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40GB is a ridiculously small data cap for even the slowest fibre connection.

 

Its the equivalent of an equally ridiculous 10GB for an ADSL connection, which some unscrupulous ISPs have offered in the recent past..

 

Most ISPs offer a minimum of 80GB or 100GB, which is enough for some light users.

 

Yes, Dropbox is designed for shifting larger quantities of data.

 

Don't waste your time monitoring your very modest usage, get a better data cap.  wink





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  #1548517 9-May-2016 09:24
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Just thought I would post a follow up.

 

I tracked the usage to my wifes laptop. In Win 8 and I learned about the feature that shows you how much data is being used over your wifi connection (open up the wifi connections and it will show usage on the connected network). Also, running task manager showed what network traffic every program was using.

 

This enabled narrowing it down to be very easy. And it was....

 

Dropbox. For some reason it was constantly checking for the file list. While it was open, even if syncing was paused, it was using about 1 megabyte per second. Yes, it used almost a Gig in 20 minutes.

 

I need to track down what the exact cause is within dropbox, but as soon as I exited out of dropbox totally, the traffic dropped to zero.

 

Crazy.

 

So thanks again all!


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