Hey guys,

So first of all - I live with my little brother, we’re both in our 20s. We watch streams here and there, we both own a smart TV, watch Youtube here and there, we both own PCs, and phones which are in the WIFI most of the time.

We’re not streaming / gaming 24/7, but more like a 3-4 hour gaming session every few days in the evening, maybe some Youtube here and there.

We don’t download huge games, we don’t upload anything at all, besides maybe an image here and there, or some videos over Whatsapp.

Today I checked my router because I feel like my internet’s just weird for whatever reason. I then found the “data usage” section on my router, and was kinda… surprised.

1.650.000MB of data used in the last month, 1,500,000MB this month, download. Upload, around 500,000MB last month, 450,000MB this month.

Let me mention that we’re running a 100mbit/s connection, with 50mbit/s upload.

Isn’t this weird for some reason? We’re not huge gamers, we live alone, this is our router, and nobody else is in it. We just enjoy watching streams in the evening, mostly just Youtube, and that’s it already.

  • DirtySpawn@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Family of 4 here. 3 gamers of us are gamers. We stream a lot bit we do not upload much. Download we are at roughly 1.7tb. Upload 184 gb.

    If you are at 600gb for upload, that to me, is a little odd and high. Might want to look into what is connecting out and what is being transferred.

    • Gardium90@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Have you restricted P2P network activity in your household?

      My guess is that OP hasn’t turned this off on the game DRM apps like Steam, is located centrally with many other gamers and has low latency. Even if they haven’t bought new games, they constantly update, and then also share those updates.