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brigriggs
New Contributor
2 years ago

Beyond Frustrating

80 GB a day of usage since October! Changed the route, new Wi-Fi password, high security setting, verified all devices. Cox app shows 60% of the data as “Other” and 20% as Network Management. N...
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    brigriggs
    2 years ago

    You were soooooooo right!

    Cloud storage was it! Opened all my devices with One Drive and one of them asked me if I wanted to sync.

    Basically everyday it was sending down my whole OneDrive data waiting for a sync! Gah!!!!! I’m a dope! Sorry Cox!

    Thank you so much!

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WiderMouthOpen
Esteemed Contributor
2 years ago

Check your modem for uncorrectables. They bloat your bandwidth use. For every packet that is loss and has to be resent is that much more data you are using. However, unplugging your modem for a day is a good test if it's something else. Maybe someone cloned your modem? Rare but technically possible. Have you posted logs which may have given your MAC address away online?