Xbox One leeching bandwidth??

[GMichael]

My brother recently bought a Xbox One and we have noticed our wifi speed slowing down so much its unuseable. He has nothing downloading but when checking the network setting it says it's using 500Kbit/s-1000kbit/s (90-200MB per hour). This is a problem, we need to know how to reduce or stop this usage as it makes all browsing and games even on the xbox unplayable.

 

 

[vectorx5000]

What's you usual down/up?

[GMichael]

1MB down and 0.3MB up, usually able to play games like csgo with 30 ping and watch youtube 1080p with no problem before getting the Xbox. 

[papapoi]

depends on the xbox power setting, if you have set to the quick power on , it is pretty much putting it into sleep mode vs off, which means it can be installing updates at anytime it chooses, even if you think it is off.

[GMichael]

Auto updates are off nothing should be using wifi, only thing it could be is the feed and notifications but they haven't had any new content in hours. I have looked all through the setting and found nothing that changes the constant usage other then disconnecting the wifi completely. Anyone else had this problem?

 

[Ramtha]

Maybe the ISP provider you are with is throttling (Slowing down lanes of traffic) your connection, Try using a VPN on a computer then bridge a computer and the xbox together with a Ethernet cable and see of that fixes the problem i would reccomend a decent vpn such as; Vypr Vpn

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[Steve.604]

Mine doesn't do that, have you tried a hard reset?

Are you streaming games to a PC, that uses a ton of internal bandwidth.

200mb/hour is a lot, I'd smash through my data cap if I have something pulling that on top of my regular use.

 

[papapoi]

go into your router settings and make sure no one is hopping on to your wifi, neighbor, phone, etc., even if auto updates are off the xbox will continue to contact the microsoft server to check for updates for the xbox itself , if the xbox is set to energy saving instead of instant on it should not be doing that

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/comments/2midcy/whyhow_does_xbox_one_use_so_much_bandwidth/

 

many people have this problem, the only thing you could do to guarantee the xbox cant use your bandwidth is to put it on its own surge protector or power switch so you can cut off power to the xbox or just unplug it. just remember if you using the cloud feature to wait awhile for it to upload the saves or you might corrupt it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/comments/1vth78/xbox_one_data_usage/

https://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/comments/2midcy/whyhow_does_xbox_one_use_so_much_bandwidth/