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monitoring bandwith by device
We recently went way over our limit of data for our home internet. We don't know how this happened. We have 35 devices in our home connected to the internet. Is there a way to monitor each devices...
A couple simple things you can check to help with overage. The 3 biggest users of data are streaming video, gaming, and smart camera's.
1. Smart camera's. Nest's "nest aware" can use a surprising amount of date. They constantly upload to the cloud and can use up to 400gb/device/month if set in HD. Do you have smart camera's?
2. streaming. 4k Streaming can use roughly 6-8gb per hour. 1080p uses 2-4gb per hour. did you recently add a new tv or another streaming device? Or recently add a streaming service to your plan?
3. Gaming. Anyone recently take up gaming in your home?
4. Open wifi? is your wifi open or is anyone else connected. It wouldn't be the first time a neighbor jumped on an open wifi for streaming tv.
another thing you can try is to simple shut off a few devices at a time. If you're using >1Tb of data a month, thats roughly 33gb/day. Most isp's have an online data usage monitor. If shutting off a specific device drops your usage from >33gb a day down significantly, you can narrow what's causing the overage.
Also many devices themselves have data usage monitors. Windows and android have their own built in data usage monitor you can use to see how much data they've used within a set time period.
it might take a little effort on your part to figure out whats using all the data.