Home broadband usage when away

[p1tse]

My parents were away until 27th December, so how come there's usage each day as shown?

They had friends and family possibly popping by once every couple of days,but I assume they did a drive by and not stopped to use Internet, any thoughts on other usage

 

[Digitalize]

Just things checking in with servers etc, downloading new listings, things like that.

 

[cuthbert]

it's low level management traffic between your router and isp. completely normal.

i was out on christmas day and my isp showed about the same amount of data being used.

if you were finding a few hundred MBs being used then perhaps you can then assume that somebody knows your wireless access password.

If you are feeling paranoid, you can always change your password anyway for piece of mind. But... that level of traffic is completely normal.

 

[boliston]

That is pretty low usage really - I find that my usage is normally about 500kB per hour download and about 200kB per hour upload when I'm not at home - this is simply the router communicating with the isp.

 

[arad85]

200KB per day is less than a few pages of browsing. Entirely normal.

 

[p1tse]

200KB per day is less than a few pages of browsing. Entirely normal.

But no one should be logged on ?

So it's normal, with the router just pinging out or whatever the technical term is?

 

[mid_gen]

Just technical chatter between ISP and router, totally normal. It's a trivial amount of data, less than one moderately rich web page view.

 

[neil_g]

Just technical chatter between ISP and router, totally normal. It's a trivial amount of data, less than one moderately rich web page view.

That. Think of it as the router telling the exchange/ISP that it is on and connected.

 

[Nod]

When we go away, I unplug the router from the power and the 'phone line.

 

[neil_g]

When we go away, I unplug the router from the power and the 'phone line.

that could trigger the line to go into a diag/limp mode. it may effect line speeds.

 

[Mikesphotaes]

When we go away, I unplug the router from the power and the 'phone line.

Aye, we do that too, been off for a month with no adverse effect on speed.

 

[PaulF]

Aye, we do that too, been off for a month with no adverse effect on speed.

That's a decent holiday

 

[Mikesphotaes]

That's a decent holiday

That's retirement for you

 

[rgrebby]

can you get it to show upload and download?