Usage statistics.

My usage took a hammering over the Xmas break so I quite expected
to exceed my limit. No problem with that.

I did however check the usage first thing this morning on turning on the PC
and to my surprise it appeared that doing nothing more than connect and load
the Google homepage had taken 12 Mb. Router and firewall statistics showed no
further activity.

12Mb x 30 days just for connecting each month seems a bit excessive to
me. Anyone got a simple explanation?

Meldrew

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Anyone got a simple explanation?

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It's probably broken. I believe other customers are seeing problems with usage records.

Hmmm - I dunno - 12 - 25 Meg a day is about what I see when I don't actively use my connection. I do run an SSH server and a few other things, but even when it's quiet I think these sorts of quantities of background traffic are not too far fetched.

What do others see?

Ian

Looked at my usage for a day when just the router was turned on and it used 13.3MB.

Just as a comparison, a Newnet connection uses about 1.5MB/day with an idle router.

My PN connection uses about 1MB/day with the router turned on permanently.

Edited by paulby (Wed 02-Jan-08 23:58:53)

There seems quite a lot of inconsistency.
Have just checked my sister's PN account and her idle days are
all round about 200k using the PN supplied one port router.

Meldrew

Oh absolutely.

It'll vary considerably from person to person. I think Ian's asking more out of curiosity than anything else.

Strikes me as odd that an Idle connection should be using so much bandwidth. If you were using VOIP I could understand that but I would question what is being sent or received on a supposedly idle session.

It can be various things.

There'll always be background noise, like various IP scans and probes going on. In more extensive issues, it could be virus related.