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Thread ID: 107831 2010-03-03 06:49:00 Broadband consumtion effie c (6856) Press F1
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863630 2010-03-04 08:44:00 Hi,
OOPS> Consumption
:help:

This last few months I have been charged for usuage that I need to challenge

After years of using Skype, chess, and funnies on 3 gb space, xtra offered a promo of double the space until December 2009

O K I was intrigued when even then with that 6 gb Promo, I got to 4 or 5 gb used each month, so decided I would pay for the 10 Gb to be safe- this, when xtra ended the promo.

Are Telecom's calibrations suspect?

Last month I got a shock to see - a week before the end of the month ---8 Gb used. A 24 hour complete non computer usuage was aranged, ( computer left running online all night and to 8 am the following day ) with Telecom, to see if there was leakage anywhere,---and although promised, by them in Manilla, I never got a an answer.

I do not have wireless,so no outsider could steel anything.

Question : would funnies downloaded from a mate, then forwarded on to say 6 others be 6 times charged as against what I would have thought was a one charge----- would that show up in my upload total?-- which shows 4 gb uploading for the month and that in itself astounds me--- I never used anything like that before

I know I am far from being 100% literate in computing perfection so can some kind F1 er tell me the answer.
:annoyed:

effie c


download an application called pipelog mate. It's not perfect but it will tell you how much traffic goes in/out of one network port. It doesn't work very well if you share files on a lan though because if say you transfer a 500mb file between two computers then that adds a 500mb variable to the data o-_O

sorry if I don't make sense; been a long day. 		Aurealis_ (7897)
863631 2010-03-04 09:09:00 Nobody picked up on Skype?

Skype can easily turn your computer into a supernode, creating a "central server"-like condition in which a lot of the traffic are channeled to your computer first before going to other places.

Turn off Skype whenever you are not using. :) 		Renmoo (66)
863632 2010-03-04 10:19:00 Didn't know Skype did that as I don't use it Agent_24 (57)
863633 2010-03-04 10:36:00 But if

Any computer hosted on a network that is behind a network address translation (NAT) device or restrictive firewall will disable supernode functionality.

Skype clients behind an HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy will not serve as supernodes. It'll only happen, if Skype is outside a NAT 		Speedy Gonzales (78)
863634 2010-03-04 21:06:00 Hi,

Skype is off all the time unless,one--=I start it,--- two , an incoming call overides the turned off Skype and I talk with my contact, on their call

By the look of all the comments I am not alone in this big bad worls :blush:

I have now copied and sent to both Telecom and xtra, all the first page arguments,etc as contributed by F1 ers

I have only used 951.8 since February 27 th., month ended- though I have kept away from my music channels which I listen to but do not download--it appears the upload is the problem especially as Chilling stated multiple contacts being forwarded to are treated as one.

If this is so then surely we can locate the culprit- it has to be uploading

effie c 		effie c (6856)
863635 2010-03-04 21:50:00 Hi,

Skype is off all the time unless,one--=I start it,--- two , an incoming call overides the turned off Skype and I talk with my contact, on their call
If Skype is OFF you CANNOT GET ANY INCOMING CALLS. So you still have Skype ON.

By the look of all the comments I am not alone in this big bad worls :blush:

I have now copied and sent to both Telecom and xtra, all the first page arguments,etc as contributed by F1 ers

I have only used 951.8 since February 27 th., month ended- though I have kept away from my music channels which I listen to but do not download--You can't listen without downloading data.
it appears the upload is the problem especially as Chilling stated multiple contacts being forwarded to are treated as one.

If this is so then surely we can locate the culprit- it has to be uploading

effie c

Guessing is useless, get some evidence in the form of data use logs.
They will, quite rightly, ignore your wailing unless you can PROVE that you are not using the data they say you are. 		fred_fish (15241)
863636 2010-03-04 21:59:00 But if

Any computer hosted on a network that is behind a network address translation (NAT) device or restrictive firewall will disable supernode functionality.

Skype clients behind an HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy will not serve as supernodes. It'll only happen, if Skype is outside a NAT
Or if it can use UPnP to open ports on your router without your knowledge. 		fred_fish (15241)
863637 2010-03-04 22:06:00 Hi Fred_fish

I object to your term "stop your wailing"--either be constructive or do something else- this is not being in the
spirit of F1

I cannot be wailing -if so, why do other F1 ers have similar comments

effie c 		effie c (6856)
863638 2010-03-04 22:28:00 I didn't say "stop your wailing", that would be rude :).

I DID say that xtra will "ignore your wailing", which, without any evidence, IS really all you are doing.

YOU need to find out, first, if your system actually IS using the data (with a bandwidth monitor), and if so, then what processes on your system are sending and receiving the data.

As previously advised, get ye some tools to enable you to find out what is going on.

Guessing and assuming is getting you nowhere. 		fred_fish (15241)
863639 2010-03-04 22:36:00 Isn't the Xtra usage meter broken anyway?

I've given up on it... 		wratterus (105)
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