Recent content by NetworkingNoob

Thanks for the info, I just setup my OpenDNS the other day and traffic seems to have decreased quite a bit. I also updated the router password from the default. Nothing else is default as far as I can see. No TOR, torrent, p2p, or anything on my end. As far as I can tell no UPnP devices are...

I think I might be following you. So if I look at the source IP, such as the below screenshot, and see an unknown IP address, that is the originating user of the data. In this instance I have no idea what IP address this is since it's not any of my devices. What would this indicate?

That's what I was thinking but this data is only going to and from the WAN MAC address itself. It doesn't appear to match any usage by any of the devices on the network. It's not a sum of all the other usage. Here's what I'm seeing.

Hello, I'm pretty new to networking in general. My ISP recently imposed a data cap and I saw my usage double from one month to the next with no apparent reason. I wanted to see what was causing all of the data usage so I flashed DD-WRT and installed YAMon usage monitor. Overnight it looks like...