Broadband - tracing data being used by 'others'?

Broadband - tracing data being used by 'others'?

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rpguk

4,483 posts

290 months

Tuesday 9th September 2014
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You're getting the stats from the ISP's online service? Do we know how accurate the timings is on that?

Did you try TonyH's suggestion yet? Or logged into the router to see a list of connected devices?

Sireatalot

628 posts

225 months

Wednesday 10th September 2014
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I have a free app on my phone called 'fing', can be used to trace network connections.. could be an idea to try it with all your perants devices turned off. It will show you all connected ip addresses and associated mac addresses to the router whether these are from computers, phones, tablets, printers etc.. both wired / wireless.

May give you hint at whats happening....

furtive

4,501 posts

285 months

Thursday 11th September 2014
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Sireatalot said:
I have a free app on my phone called 'fing', can be used to trace network connections.. could be an idea to try it with all your perants devices turned off. It will show you all connected ip addresses and associated mac addresses to the router whether these are from computers, phones, tablets, printers etc.. both wired / wireless.

May give you hint at whats happening....
The OP should be able to get all that info directly off his router, but he has chosen to ignore people when they have asked that question

scorp

8,783 posts

235 months

Thursday 11th September 2014
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furtive said:
Sireatalot said:
I have a free app on my phone called 'fing', can be used to trace network connections.. could be an idea to try it with all your perants devices turned off. It will show you all connected ip addresses and associated mac addresses to the router whether these are from computers, phones, tablets, printers etc.. both wired / wireless.

May give you hint at whats happening....
The OP should be able to get all that info directly off his router, but he has chosen to ignore people when they have asked that question
This would be the first thing to try, most routers have a per-device client list along with total data usage counters for each device.

maffski

1,881 posts

165 months

Thursday 11th September 2014
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Davi said:
Data use has been based on their ISP reports (newnet) that have an online use monitor, and they get emails when they are close to their limit. They have a 3gb package and before the problems didn't use even half of that a month, now it can be gone in a few days!
Have you queried it with Newnet? The traffic monitor may be borked. This happened to BT recently.

furtive

4,501 posts

285 months

Thursday 2nd October 2014
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Any update OP?