Straight flashplayer distribution from their own servers.

In reply to a post by Stephenbw:

Yes, I do have Skype on my Mac....

Check this

It can't be acting as a supernode if it is turned off as the OP has mentioned a few times in the thread...

EDIT: That is assuming it is the laptop that is switched off - but then earlier the OP did say that they hadn't woken the laptop from sleep so assuming skype can't work on a sleeping computer then essentially the laptop would have been off and not using bandwidth.

Edited by ian72 (Fri 05-Mar-10 15:48:55)

In reply to a post by Stevenage_Neil:

In reply to a post by Stephenbw:

Yes, I do have Skype on my Mac....

Check this

That's very interesting, however it does say The best way in my opinion to find out if Skype is acting as a Super-Node is to start it and let it run for a few hours without using it actively.

I do not have Skype running when I am not using it, which I do very rarely.

Some thoughts

Depending on your software update settings, OSX will download a software update and then tell you that it is available ready for you to install it. I have Software Update set that it does not automatically download the update until I give the OK.

In the past there has been cases where users have been connected to netcams sending images to a browser, even when the browser is switched away from the netcam the data is continuing to be streamed to the computer. It cannot be stopped until either the browser is closed down or the machine rebooted (I cannot remember which).

Finally - do you have to use WiFi to connect to a fixed location computer, using an ethernet cable will be faster and allow you to disable the WiFi - which is the best form of WiFi security.

I had heard nothing from Plusnet, so I posted an online query to them today.

A friendly man has just called me, checked things out and discovered that my account is showing an upload spike of 4GB in less than 1 hour.
According to him it would be completely impossible for me to even download 4GB in less than 1 hour with my broadband speed and as my upload speed is much slower...

The upshot is they have confirmed that it was a glitch which I was convinced was the case, and they are refunding £4, which is nice although that wasn't really my main concern.

Sorry to reply to a rather old note but I noticed my daily usage today and also realised that for a week when I was on holiday and had everything turned off (including the router) and I have been billed for approx 3Gb of data in that time. So it does suggest that plusnets figures are completely screwy.

I have raised a ticket and will get back with any response

Hi there,

Any chance you could post or PM the ticket ID so we can have a look at that for you?

Never mind, found your account - have you by any chance lent anyone a router? At least in June, possibly before?

Nope.

I did have one router that was thought to be faulty that I returned some time ago, though I have had a lot of line issues so it is possible it was not the router.
Any chance Plus Net sent my old router out to someone else with my login details still in it??