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vega23
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7 days ago
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1.6 TB usage in a day

I tend to use 5 - 10GB a day.  In the last 3 days it started spiking.  Didn't notice until I got notified today.  How is this possible?  Nothing has changed on my end.  I have a WFH job and other tha...
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    3 days ago

    I have a definitive answer.  Something started glitching with the VPN connection I use with my work laptop.  It hits 150MB/s download then gets stuck.  I was leaving my work laptop on overnight during the week while connected to the VPN.  Usage dropped on the weekend when my work laptop was off.

    I figured it out by using the network activity monitor on my work Mac.  I saw 4.5TB of data received and immediately knew that it had to be something going on with the laptop.  This my friends is how you do real troubleshooting.