Data Usage Meter
I've seen some older posts, but I'm concerned about the data usage meter. I got a notification that I have used half my allotment in just a few days. The vast amount of usage is supposedly in "other"...
Forum Discussion
Do you have a ring camera or video surveillance? What about amazon echo or dot? If you the amazon devices, make sure you turn em off when you are not at home. The will start a loop of listening/transmitting/receiving and chew up data. Also, they share bandwidth with other amazon devices. Cameras can use a LOT of data if they are sending to remote sites, ring doorbells are good for that.
Last but not least, make sure no neighbors have your wifi pwd. Years ago I worked with someone, who's son was trying to be nice to a girl, and gave her the wifi pwd, and next thing you know the entire neighborhood had it.
I do have echos and Ring cameras, but they are not new. They've never used this much data. Confusingly, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday when we were home we used 50-100GB / day. That makes sense if we were both streaming all day. Monday, when we were not home, we used about 17GB, which also seems reasonable. But then Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday when we were also not home, we used 250-350 GB / day, which is outrageous.
I double checked and there aren't any open networks. We have a secure password and no kids, so it seems unlikely that there was any outside access.
