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New R7350 Nighthawk downloading massive amounts of data
I recently purchased a NEW R7350 nighthawk router and installed it last month. I am now seeing 4x the data usage, which as I search the internet seems to not be a new problem. Netgear has no way to...
does it happen on your other devices?
I know there was some issues with firesticks when they first come out downloading to much screensavers/wallpaper and burning through data.
Try your other devices to see if its just an issue on that firestick.
Are you streaming video?
Several streaming sites will dynamically change the streaming quality based off the connection you have. If suddenly you have a better connection, it might have bumped your streaming quality from 720 to 1080p or even 4K.
What you can do is if you're using 100gig, shut off half your device. See if you still use that much data. If you do, then you know its in your devices that are on and you can continue to follow that option until you get to the device using all the data.
Another thing is if you're using windows 10/11 devices, theres a data usage monitor that'll tell you how much data you've used. I've used that before when one of my pc's was infected and chewed through 600gig in 2-3 days.
thanks. I do stream, however, I literally have 1 PC connected to the router at this time. I have also disabled auto firmware update. Going to add streaming devices back if this remedies my issue 1 by 1.
Sadly, adding 1 device at a time and tracking usage is about all you can do to find it.
So I had minimal BW utilization with just my computer on. I added a firestick on, cut it back to 720p 60Hz res, as you recommended, and I am back up to ridiculous bw usage. 15 GB overnight on the one streaming device. So the net effect here is that the 1 streaming device with the new router, even set to low res, breaks the bank. any thoughts?
Also, Netgear does not offer a way to monitor each devices bw utilization. Is there some other way to monitor by device? Netgear says that there #1 feature request for the last years is this, yet they do not offer it.
15gb isn't unreasonable overnight if you left it streaming all night.
a base 720P stream can use at least a gig an hour, 1080p 2-4gig, and with it getting upwards of 7-8gig an hour with 4k.
so if you're streaming on multiple devices all night, you're going to use a lot of data. You might look at using a sleep/auto-off setup so it only streams for a certain amount of time.
Certain 3rd party firmwares or more business grade routers can do data monitoring by device.