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| 555892 | 2007-06-04 03:14:00 | I switched from Xtra to TelstraClear for my broadband last month and as I had never received the email from Xtra to say I had reached 80% of my 1GB limit, I went for the same plan. I don't download movies, music or indeed much of anything, so the majority of my usage is surfing the net or sending and receiving emails/photos. Today I got an email from TelstraClear to say I had reached 80% of my first 1GB usage pack. I'm not overly concerned as another pack is only $2.95 and as a new customer I'm on the two months' free usage (up to 10GB per month) promotion. However, I clicked the link to have a closer look at my usage and there is a HUGE spike on one day, which seems a little odd. My highest downstream usage on any other day was about 55MB and upstream about 40MB, but on May 22 (a Tuesday) my downstream was about 150MB, all between about 10am and 12pm. I've checked my emails to see if I was sent any large files or photos that day, but can't see anything unusual. I was home that day but can't for the life of me think of anything I was doing that would use that much of my allowance. Should I be worried? I don't leave my computer on 24/7 and shut down IE while I am doing other things. I now have 198MB left of my 1GB and another six days until the new usage pack kicks in, but once the two months' free usage ends, I don't want to continually be worried about how much I am using. |
Beemer (6956) | ||
| 555893 | 2007-06-04 03:49:00 | I dont know if there is an app. that measures exactly what programs are using how much bandwidth. I'll try and find one. That would let you know once and for all. | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 555894 | 2007-06-04 04:58:00 | Just hazarding a guess but have you got WindowsUpdate set to just download and auto install, that could be the spike if so, have known several people to get caught with that. If so, maybe just change it to advise you of updates but don't install so you can then custom install just what you want, not what MS thinks you should have. | PinoyKiw (9675) | ||
| 555895 | 2007-06-04 10:40:00 | I recall, about a month ago, a work mate mentioned they got an e-mail saying they'd exceeded their limit. In that case, TelstraClear had stuffed up. Although, 1 gig ain't much to use up these days. Although I'm on dial up still, I regularly use 1 gig every few days in uploads, downloads. |
the_bogan (9949) | ||
| 555896 | 2007-06-04 22:40:00 | That could perhaps be it, the Windows Update thing, but it was set the same when I was with Xtra and never once got the email in a year of broadband usage. I know that day was the day I was having trouble reactivating my Adobe Photoshop software (because of the multiple Vista-prompted activations), but it's not like I was downloading anything, just trying to activate it by phone. It just worried me because the usage was about three times normal and as I am the only one who uses the computer and I know what I use it for, it seemed odd. I know TelstraClear had a problem last month but their information said anything after May 11 would be correct and I think my connection with them started on May 15. I had 195GB left last night, and this morning I've only got 188MB so it does seem to be whipping through them pretty quickly. |
Beemer (6956) | ||
| 555897 | 2007-06-06 23:41:00 | I've just found something else that may be the cause of me using more than I ever did with Xtra. I have a Compaq Presario computer with Vista installed and it has all these 'gadgets' on the desktop. One is an RSS feed of world headlines... which I assume is constantly being updated and therefore downloading information even when I don't have a browswer open. I've uninstalled that gadget as I never really bothered with it, so it will be interesting to see if that affects my usage now. | Beemer (6956) | ||
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