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| Thread ID: 140370 | 2015-10-01 04:26:00 | Unusual data usage - is it Microsoft? | BBCmicro (15761) | Press F1 |
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| 1409267 | 2015-10-01 04:26:00 | A friend (same age as me) is worried that his monthly data usage has gone up from about 4 GB per month to 22 GB last month. He's about to head overseas and thought he might be leaving a hacked wifi to his house sitters. I told him it might be Microsoft uploading Win 10 but would check with you guys. His usage has a lot of upload in it. He's got Win7 and Win8.1 computers and gets nagging screens about installing Win10. He also gets "failed" messages on Windows Update. I don't know whether it's failed because he hasn't pushed the button on installing Win10 or whether it's something else that hasn't installed. He gave me this info by phone. I haven't seen his installations He would like to turn off the data usage if possible |
BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1409268 | 2015-10-01 04:47:00 | I also had the same problem, ended up having to disable automatic updates, & Telephony. Also disconnected the Internet when not being used. They are using your broadband to upload to other computers. First I would check all the partitions for any new files, mine had about 2.5GB of them. There is a way to turn it off but I forget what it is. There are a couple of Guys on this forum who could help. You could also Google it. | mzee (3324) | ||
| 1409269 | 2015-10-01 05:05:00 | I have found the patch as follows:- Search gpedit.msc Enter. In the Group Policy window navigate to Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Network -> Microsoft Peer-to-Peer Networking Services and open Turn off Microsoft Peer-to-Peer Networking Services. Enable. |
mzee (3324) | ||
| 1409270 | 2015-10-01 06:05:00 | Mine is set to only upload to local computers and I can confirm that this is exactly what it is doing, it is not sending any updates over the internet. I monitor our usage very closely. I think your being paranoid personally. | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1409271 | 2015-10-01 06:41:00 | I have found the patch as follows:- Search gpedit.msc Enter. In the Group Policy window navigate to Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Network -> Microsoft Peer-to-Peer Networking Services and open Turn off Microsoft Peer-to-Peer Networking Services. Enable. Couldn't find it on my machine but found this on Google: "Group Policy Editor is a feature in Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise editions of Windows 7. It does not belong to Starter, Home Basic and Home Premium." Which leaves me out as I have Home Premium. :( |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1409272 | 2015-10-01 07:23:00 | Mine is set to only upload to local computers and I can confirm that this is exactly what it is doing, it is not sending any updates over the internet. I monitor our usage very closely. I think your being paranoid personally. He is not being paranoid. Before I stopped P to P at least 80Mb would upload every night unless I switched off the modem. If it wasn't Microsoft it was someone else. |
mzee (3324) | ||
| 1409273 | 2015-10-01 08:35:00 | Or security updates or dropbox or Google drive or Onedrive or whatever that may not fit the conspiracy theory | Ofthesea (14129) | ||
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