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Herr_Schmidt
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What is “Network Management and Testing” data usage category?

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?

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  • WiderMouthOpen's avatar
    WiderMouthOpen
    Honored Contributor III

    My best guess is it's ICMP data. Have you been doing a lot of speed test lately?

    • Herr_Schmidt's avatar
      Herr_Schmidt
      New Contributor

      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. 

  • Bruce's avatar
    Bruce
    Honored Contributor III

    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?

    • Herr_Schmidt's avatar
      Herr_Schmidt
      New Contributor

      It is 80% of my usage the last 2 month. So yes, it seems high.

      • Bruce's avatar
        Bruce
        Honored Contributor III

        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.