My wife and I recently moved to an area that has no DSL or Cable, so we opted to get verizons LTE broadband with the MIFI (a little device that acts like a WIFI hotspot for up to 5 devices).
Anyway, the rate is $50 for 5GB of data ($10/GB overage), which kind of sucks, but our only other option is dialup. So I figure 5GB should be plently of data for us since all we do is casual web surfing.
About a week after I get the device I get an email saying we have exceeded our bandwidth allocation, so I log on and I see that days 1-5 are fairly normal in terms of usage. Then on day 6 I see a period from 10pm-midnight where 3GB was downloaded. Then on day 7 I see a period from 8pm to 9pm where 2GB was downloaded.
For the last week it has been fine, but I don't have the slightest idea what could have used that much data. We didn't do any video or audio streaming. We both have windows firewall on as well. The only thing we have connected to the MIFI are two laptops.
Virus updates, windows updates, etc..., shouldn't be anywhere near that big, right?
Is there some kind of logging software I can install so that next time this happens I know exactly what caused it?
Any ideas on what might have used this data? I can't think of anything...
Anyway, the rate is $50 for 5GB of data ($10/GB overage), which kind of sucks, but our only other option is dialup. So I figure 5GB should be plently of data for us since all we do is casual web surfing.
About a week after I get the device I get an email saying we have exceeded our bandwidth allocation, so I log on and I see that days 1-5 are fairly normal in terms of usage. Then on day 6 I see a period from 10pm-midnight where 3GB was downloaded. Then on day 7 I see a period from 8pm to 9pm where 2GB was downloaded.
For the last week it has been fine, but I don't have the slightest idea what could have used that much data. We didn't do any video or audio streaming. We both have windows firewall on as well. The only thing we have connected to the MIFI are two laptops.
Virus updates, windows updates, etc..., shouldn't be anywhere near that big, right?
Is there some kind of logging software I can install so that next time this happens I know exactly what caused it?
Any ideas on what might have used this data? I can't think of anything...
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