My broadband usage - cannot believe it!

andygb

It will now be interesting to see how this affects the usage stats.

Mr_Toad

andygb wrote: »

It will now be interesting to see how this affects the usage stats.

Are the figures you are quoting your figures or BTs?

Have you called and asked them what your usage is?

Everyone who signed up with BT in recent years is automatically part of FON but the data used by FON users on your WiFi point doesn't count against your allowance.

Is it possible the usage while you are out is other people using your FON hotspot and that you are, wrongly, counting this against your allowance?

Figment

It may not affect them at all, but seeing as you don't use wifi, there's no point having it enabled, and it also eliminates any possibility of anyone else piggy-backing on your network.

This is also why I asked about BTFon. As you're probably aware that by signing up to it, you are allowing a separate, small portion of your internet connection to be used by other BTFon customers. This is totally divorced from your own connection except that it uses your router and bit of wire. It shouldn't have any impact on your broadband usage, nor on your data limits, but who knows???

mikey72

Try ctrl-alt-del, see what's running. Load Zonealarm, and stop everything connecting without asking you first, and see what is trying to download. I don't think you can turn off the wireless if you're on BTFON, it's greyed out, to stop you cheating on it.

rmg1

If I read the info on the link I posted correctly, then local wireless can be turned off without affecting the BTFon signal.
Could be wrong though ......

andygb

rmg1 wrote: »

If I read the info on the link I posted correctly, then local wireless can be turned off without affecting the BTFon signal.
Could be wrong though ......

I have turned off the wireless option as instructed, and can still use the net OK.
Just to clarify. I am in a residential street in a village. I just have the one PC, and there is nothing else connected to the PC. I don't use it for gaming or downloading music. As far as I can see, the only downloading I do is watching youtube occasionally, and watching live coverage of the Giro d'Italia for half an hour yesterday.
My uploading which is miniscule at around 0.2 GB per month is putting quite large images on my Flickr site.

What is BTFon?

mikey72

rmg1 wrote: »

If I read the info on the link I posted correctly, then local wireless can be turned off without affecting the BTFon signal.
Could be wrong though ......

My Homehub 2 doesn't give the option to turn off wifi, or set mac address filtering if I use BTFON. But as I use it everywhere, I can live with it.

DCFC79

andygb wrote: »

What is BTFon?

I believe its a wirless community setup by BT which uses home users wifi signal.

When you see BT openzone mntioned then thats teh BTFon

JMurph

I recently upgraded to the BT 40GB limit from the 10GB, cos I kept just going over 10GB per month. In the middle of my second month I've just got an email warning my I've used up my 40GB allowance!!!

I am highly suspicious of BT now, because my usage habits haven't altered much, and because I got a call from them last week giving me the heavy sell on their fibre optic, which I turned down because I wasn't using my BB so much for things requiring higher speeds. Call me suspicious but...

On a slightly unrelated topic, I also am reminded of a sales call from BT about 6 weeks ago, when they guy was trying to upsell me and asked about my usage habits, when I told him about watching iplayer through my BT vision box he told me categorically that that would not use any of my BB allowance. I asked him to explain that, but he couldn't. Can anybody?!

mikey72

I've jut renewed my contract with BT for unlimited broadband, with anytime calls. We've just been decorating, and I was pulling out the old 10base2 cables, and the replacement cat 5, from the kids rooms we used to have when the computers were on a dial up modem, and running windows 3.1. Fast forward, they're all wireless on tablets or laptops using at least 1G a day. Wonder how long that would have took, the original modem we had was a V32, when we upgraded to a 56k V90 it was amazing.