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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 di...
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/
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.