What is “Network Management and Testing” data usage category?
My data shows this as a usage category- no one can explain what it is. Is it a scam to bill Data through the Panorama wifi router to increase my bill?
My best guess is it's ICMP data. Have you been doing a lot of speed test lately?
Cox rep said he thinks it is a speed issue. I did some testing that day, and it was 119%- works fine. The increase over 2 months was around 80% every month. I turned off all start up programs I could find- but it sill looks like there is automatic running burning data- i can;t see what it is- someone in the forum suggested the router was running tests by itself- I asked cox rep- he said no.
I would assume, as a router, Panoramic has an SNMP component to monitor the "health" of its connection. Perhaps this category includes the data from speed tests and maybe re-transmissions.
If this is a separate category, I'd also assume Cox is subtracting this number from your usage. Is this number high?
It is 80% of my usage the last 2 month. So yes, it seems high.
I don't have the Pano. Could you post an image and any fine print on the page? By its name, Network Management is overhead, and 80% is a lot of network overhead.
