Data usage.....
Hi All
I cancelled VM yesterday, and am currently on my 30 day period of cancellation. Anyhow, on the phone while cancelling I was told I was a hi user. 500 gig in month, and so should stay with VM. I thought that was odd, so today I reset my modem data summary to 0. turned off my PC and devices and went out for the afternoon, on return I checked my consumption, and with no devices connected I've downloaded 4gig of data in 6 hours !!!!! how can this be? The only device attached to the modem (hard wired) and switched on was my TiVo |
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Don't believe the numbers on the modem/hub
Mine says it has been 42 days since a reset and have only downloaded 57Gig But I rebooted it 3 days ago and downloaded 97.5 Gig this morning :P |
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cheers, was thinking maybe VM are trying to cook my usage to try and convince me to stay.....looks like the modem has a random number generator built in.
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with no devices attached other than my TiVo I'm now over 8gig usage in 14 hours. I did watch an hour of snooker on BBC iPlayer last night |
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If someone stealing bandwidth via your wifi?
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I know 2 people who regularly suck up over 12TB a month on FTTC and then some. Sorry but 500GB is not high usage, sounds like they were doing the usual please stay with us, we need more to give to the Americans tactic. |
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It would be very unwise for Virgin to lie about your usage like that, at least to an extreme. There's always a margin of error, but it's not tens or hundreds of gigabytes.
It's worrying that you're seeing 4GB of usage in 6 hours with apparently nothing connected. Try it again but actually switch the wireless off - I know you changed the password, but something is funny. |
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The Superhub usage counter is useless, but the tools VM have to see a customers usage should be spot on.
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I have no idea why they are using that as a strategy to retain though. Neither VM or any other ISP want customers whose usage is above average unless they are charging per GB or capped tiers with overages. |
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One option is to use MAC Filtering.
But I've heard you can spoof a MAC address, so this option may be no use. You could use a Wi-Fi sniffer program/app, and see what's in the area. I use the Android App WiFi Analyzer, this tell me whose in my area. It does amaze me how many still have the default VM or BT SSID set. |
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There's easier and better ways to secure a network remember, all you have to do is make it non-effective for the hacker to use his resoures to attempt to crsck a password and that is so simple! |
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I am perhaps one of them. A long, simple phrase > a short, complex password :) |
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