 aefstoggaflmOpen Source FanPremium
join:2002-03-04
Bethlehem, PA
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Re: How to detect.. Maybe, the meters are wrong?
While I know your ISP is Rogers, I point to »AT&T Won't Explain Meter Inaccuracy, Claims Data Proprietary
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Never used Network Magic Pro, but here's the key thing -- does it check ONDEMAND, or does it check ALLTHETIME?
If you don't have some sort of method of it watching all the time AND logging the results somewhere for later
review, especially when you're sleeping or at work, then it defeats the purpose of your security stance.
My 00000010bits
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It is possible that your MAC address has been cloned and someone is piggy backing off of your connection. I would disable wireless and see if your data still goes up quickly. |
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SeanG
join:2013-03-07
Orleans, ON
3 edits | Well now we're at the middle of March and I've already hit my cap by 14GB, so it's now at 94GB for the month. I've never ever been close to 60GB in a whole month....
Last night I called Rogers again to let them know, of course it's 99.9% on my side, well I told him I'm 100% sure it's not with all the anti-malwares instaled and always checking, so the 0.1% is because of....
I got fed up and scrapped my Win 7 drive and reinstalled it, now I'll be doing the same for the Win XP drive (same PC by the way).
I noticed the router was going nuts with the wireless even though my laptop is turned off and both iPod's too. Nothing connected to the wireless network. Checked my Wireless settings, everything looked ok but the Wireless MAC Filter had about 8 or 9 entries?
I cleared all of them, then the wireless light on the router stopped blinking... could that been the problem?
If so, how and how can I prevent for this to happen again?
***Update***
Last night I purchased new Linksys Router to replace my old one, I got the E2500 and I had the WTR54G2. So this would change my pass key once again for the fourth time and this time it's 26 characters long with different characters, not just letters & numbers too. So if this one gets cracked, damn that person is damn genius!
Rogers tech support mentioned I should maybe change their modem too, which I couldn't do last night (didn't have time), maybe this evening.
Just checked my bandwidth, yesterday had over 9GB but that could of been before I changed the router. I'll only know tomorrow if the new router changed anything.
Another thing I forgot to mention, my speed is not affected at all!!!
More info, just found this site and I'm clearly not the only one...
»trueler.com/2012/01/29/rogers-in···-beware/ |
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SeanG
join:2013-03-07
Orleans, ON | Ok I've completely gave up on Rogers internet, my usage for March 19th is missing, have the 20th, then it's the 18th and before.
I have now reached 98GB in 20 days with only the Express package.
As of today I am no longer of Rogers Internet customer (well the end date April 19th), it's sad really, mostly when I've had no issues with them since they first came out with cable internet (@Home service). They tried to offer me the unlimited plan thing free for 12 months, oh that's nice but like I told the Rep, what if the problem is still there after the 12 months, because I don't need to pay an extra $10 for unlimited and the overage issue still exist, what then?
He didn't have answer for me.
Soooo I went to Distributel and took the Cable 28 package, cheaper, a little faster and unlimited at no extra charge...
I am sad to leave them but one has to take a stand once a while.  |
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