VU vs YouTube TV
I posted a rather angry comment about data spikes/usage last month. My wife and I are the only users in the household. We are pretty consistently boring people. We have never exceed our limit and ...
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Over 260 GB in 5 days? That's 52 GB per day. You'd have to constantly stream 1080p for 24 hours to consume that much data per day. You're "boring" because you're glued to the TV all month! Kidding.
Basically...Vue vs. YouTube respectively...it's 50 GB vs. 10 GB per day. Something was off. Either Cox had 3 thumbs on the scale...you were unknowingly streaming in UHD...or an outsider was also on your network.
Perhaps Cox corrected something after your angry comment about data spikes.
Maybe they did correct somethings.
Update. To date this month...108 GB thru 11 days. Less than 11 GB per day. No substantive change in viewing patterns.
I can't explain it. I did dial down what I could via Firestick settings. But I did that early last month as well. By curtailing somethings last month...inconveniently not watching multiple TV's...we came in at 999 GB used. On pace to do less than 300 GB this month without having changed anything back on setting yet.
We've never been near that monthly low either.
Knowing I'm well below usage budget I actually tried to use more data by leaving more TV's on Sunday..10 GB.
Definitely something in the stream...not completely our end. I manage our router and I have to manually add a user, not just have a password. Not that it's an issue. I have one neighbor within 100 yards.
So, I'm going to dial up the firestick settings this month and monitor results for a couple weeks. Will update.
manually add a user
What is that...MAC filtering? I've read it can be cloned/bypassed. I'm not suggesting an unauthorized user but only could be an issue for somebody else.
That was a lot of bandwidth you had with Vue and I couldn't find another contributor complaining about it. T'was strainge.
I monitor connected devices, but probably not foolproof.
I just highly doubt an unauthorized user based on where I live. No neighbors, on a dead end at a canal. Acre+ lots, Park across the street. No one is near me that would be accessing my network on a continuous basis.
Aliens streaming. 🙂
