Hi Geekzone,First post and unfortunately it's because I'm completely at a loss with Vodafone's help centre.We went away on holiday at the start of September, and came home 3 weeks later only to hit our 80gb broadband limit a few days later.When I checked our usage, I noticed huge amounts of upstream traffic, in the region of 50-300mb an hour. We very rarely (if ever) exceed our limit, so I set about trying to figure out where all this data came from.After doing isolation tests, changing router and network passwords, disabling all the network features I could think of and doing spyware scans of our iMac, I can't find a single source for this upstream data. I'm not seeding or using any P2P software either, and I've disabled all iCloud/Dropbox/Google Drive synching. I've checked the router's client list, and as far as I can see there are no foreign connections, though my technical knowledge is limited in this area.Here's where it gets interesting though; we took to shutting off our router and modem at the wall to prevent excess usage charges - the data would immediately start ticking up as soon as they were powered on (with no computers or devices on or connected to the network). Also, I noticed very small amounts of downstream data at odd times (12am - 6am ish) even when the router and modem were turned off.I've contacted Vodafone's help centre at least three times, and they've promised to look into it, though it's been a long drawn out process with no communication or updates whatsoever over the last month. The line in that Bic Runga song about "listening to the same old tune" is apt.Is there anything else I could check to make sure this isn't a problem from our end? Or is this something that needs to be looked at by Vodafone? From reading around the forum, I've noticed that there's been some work done to the Cable network, could this possibly be causing the issues?Any help or perspective would be hugely appreciated, thanks!
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