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High Network Usage?

darealsoulless

I have had the same internet service provider for a long time now. I use SuddenLink Communications and I have for quite some time. They seem to be the only decent providers in my area.

 

Anyways, I ran into a problem this month regarding the usage of my allowed monthly limit (500GB). In a matter of around five days, the usage had already hit 700GB. Note that I still attend school, and my PC stays off during the day until I get home. Anyways, after 5 days of my monthly period, I had already used around 720GB, and my bill was going to cost a fortune if it kept going up. I contacted my providers and they suggested someone had been hogging all my allowed data. I then said that there was only three people living in my house (my dad, me and my brother) and that we never get within 75GB of the 500GB maximum limit, and I don't live close enough to anyone for them to be able to get a stable connection on my network. My router is an ASUS RT-AC87U, and it has been in my house for a little while. It does reach quite far, to about the end of my driveway (which is about 25 yards long) and it sits around the middle of my house. The size of my house is about 3200ft2. My nearest neighbor lives well out of the area that the router can reach, and I don't suspect it would be them (I do have a pretty hard to guess password on my router). Any suggestions on why this is happening? Or how someone could eat up all my allowed data without being near the router?

~` please , don't let my whole life burn down `~

- why can't i just focus right now? -

; i'm tired ;

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porn

 

Someone could be trying to fill a 1TB HDD

CPU: A8-5600K GPU: MSI RX 480 GAMING X 4GB MOBO: ASUS A55BM-PLUS 

RAM: 2x 4GB Samsung DDR3-1600 1.25V PSU: Corsair CX430 CASE: Enermax Ostrog Windowed STORAGE: PNY CS1111 120GB / Hitachi 1TB 7200RPM OS: Windows 10 Pro & macOS Sierra 10.12.3

 

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maybe the bro or the dad has some torrenting virus?

EDIT: wait, once you go over your limit they just start charging you by usage no questions asked? thats not a very nice isp...

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Do you have traffic monitor on your router?

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You didn't mention weather you had an encrypted wireless network or if you run it entirely open...

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