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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/
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.
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.
- Yes I’m using Nest Aware for two cams.
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/
- Great info. Thanks a lot.
Based on your info, my guess that google cams are the culprit appears to be correct. Unfortunately my earlier router Netgear R6300v2 could never upload so much of data and thus my monthly data use was about 600 Gb only but when I switched over to RAX80 Router, data use rose to 1024 GB in 25 days and I got an alarm from Xfinity.
I have now set the cams to low resolution videos with time slots to set them on off. Once I know the real data consumption pattern average per day, I will increase the time slot and also possibly the resolution.
Thanks for your support.