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High WiFi consumption
My internet service provider reported that I consumed the total monthly allocated data of 1024 GBytes in December. My activities remained the same, almost similar WiFi devices, same streaming. Only difference was that I added RAX80 router replacing my old 6300v2.
Can by just changing the router my data usage jump from 600GB to 1024 GB/ month?
Should I check anything else on the router to limit the data usage?
Can by just changing the router my data usage jump from 600GB to 1024 GB/ month?
Should I check anything else on the router to limit the data usage?
Nest aware does constant streaming back to googles servers. The standard features only do it when its activate by live view or motion view.
Here's an article that talks about it. Basically at lowest settings, nest aware uses around 18gb/month/device. Medium is roughly 120gb/month/device and high resolution is 300gb+/device/month. If you also have nest cam IQ it can by 400gb+/device/month.
If you've got 2 devices, that's potentially a lot of data streaming.
https://corpblog.viasat.com/keeping-an-eye-on-the-data-usage-of-all-those-smart-home-devices/
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Switching router's shouldn't change your data usage. And there's no way to monitor data by device (one of the most requested features).
What you can do is look on your attached devices page or access control page. If you're using 1000gb per month that should be 33mbps (ish) gb per day versus your average of 20gb. Disable a few devices that might be the culprit. Maybe one of them is repeatedly downloading the same file or maybe someone else is connected to your network.
I'd start with if you have any kids. Also 4k can burn 6-8gb an hour if you have an 4k streaming devices.
- Thanks plemans.
I turned traffic meter on and realized that my google security cams started uploading huge data to clouds. I believe my earlier router was not allowing cams to go full stream. I have turned them to low resolution now and set the timers to turn on and off at requisite hours of day and night.
As suggested by you, I’m investigating each and every device too for data usage. My kid is grownup and he doesn’t live with us so no need to check on other stuff. We don’t watch 4K tv/ videos so no concerns.
I checked my guests network is off totally and my passwords are not available to anyone else.
Hope cams were the data hogs, still monitoring other devices.security cams are a good source of data usage.
Are you using "nest aware"? This runs a constant stream of video to the cloud. The regular setup only streams when you live view it.
