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Post by Her3tiK on May 8, 2011 17:14:15 GMT -5
Hey all, Hoping someone with a better grasp of wireless internet than I can help me with something here. I'm currently using a 3G wireless internet connection at home, which is, for all intents and purposes, another cell phone on my monthly bill. Yesterday, it went through somewhat lengthy self upgrade (an automatic download). While I'm not entirely sure what this download did, my usage meter has somehow gone from 1.5GB to over 8388608TB and I'm not entirely sure how that happened. While it could be one of the nastiest viruses I've ever encountered, I don't see how even that could run so much data through this little device without me noticing (I've had no issues with my PC/connection since this update).
I've got an unlimited data plan on this thing, so I'm not worried about a massive bill, though I can't for the life of me figured out how this happened. Hopefully, it's just a glitch in the new software and not something serious (the T-Mobile site doesn't have a direct answer to what's going on) that could end up ruining my laptop. If anyone knows what's going on here, I'd really appreciate some answers.
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Post by katz on May 8, 2011 18:33:26 GMT -5
I don't think even spyware could crank usage up quite that much... Still, to be sure run a complete virus and spyware check (lots of free programs to double check your current one. I'm a fan of either Avast or AVG for virus and Super Anti Spyware for spyware).
Mostly likely, though, it's a program glitch. Call up your service provider and ask if you can't get them through the site.
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Post by Shane for Wax on May 8, 2011 18:40:12 GMT -5
Have you been streaming a lot of things? That's how my ex got hers to go thru the roof is from streaming from netflix.
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Post by Mantorok on May 8, 2011 21:39:47 GMT -5
Have you been streaming a lot of things? That's how my ex got hers to go thru the roof is from streaming from netflix. It's physically impossible to download that much in a month via a 3G connection. Even downloading 24 hours a day for 30 days, you'll only reach around 20TB. It's clearly a glitch in their usage meter.
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Post by Shane for Wax on May 8, 2011 21:40:42 GMT -5
Well I know that it would be impossible to get THAT much I'm just saying it might be higher than he's used to from sudden streaming.
Also, some people have a tendency to exaggerate when it comes to numbers. When I've had to help other people they say 'It used to be [insert rather normal number here] now it's 29839842789754911'
So I'm used to that. lol
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Post by Her3tiK on May 8, 2011 21:46:41 GMT -5
It's got to be a glitch on their end. A full virus scan found nothing and restarting the computer didn't change a thing either. I think the upgrade it installed was to adapt the program to the 4G network, since that's what the icon says now. As far as streaming is concerned, I stream anything, especially vids/movies at home, and, as Mantorok said, there's no possible way to run up as many terrabytes as this thing says (though fitting that much music on a 250GB hard drive would be amazing).
Perhaps it's the total data that's been transferred across their entire network?
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Post by Shane for Wax on May 8, 2011 22:01:48 GMT -5
It MIGHT be but I'd still call them. I don't see any repercussions even though in my ex's case they shut off her internet for a bit while they sorted through why her data usage went through the roof suddenly.
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Post by MaybeNever on May 8, 2011 22:51:30 GMT -5
8.3 million terabytes.
For comparison this is:
260 billion copies of the King James Bible 13 billion copies of Windows 7 SP2 920 million copies of Dexter, Season 3 750 million copies of Inception at ultra high definition 231 million copies of Grand Theft Auto 4 with Liberty City Stories 94.3 million copies of the extended LOTR trilogy at high definition, with commentary
0.01 copies of all the porn on the Internet
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Post by Shano on May 8, 2011 23:51:54 GMT -5
8.3 million terabytes. For comparison this is: 260 billion copies of the King James Bible 13 billion copies of Windows 7 SP2 920 million copies of Dexter, Season 3 750 million copies of Inception at ultra high definition 231 million copies of Grand Theft Auto 4 with Liberty City Stories 94.3 million copies of the extended LOTR trilogy at high definition, with commentary 0.01 copies of all the porn on the Internet Oh come on! There is certainly more porn on the Internet than that!
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on May 9, 2011 0:50:36 GMT -5
It's a glitch. My phone once thought it had been unplugged for several hundred days, IIRC, even though the up time counter was substantially less. Glitches happen.
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on May 9, 2011 7:21:01 GMT -5
Definitely a glitch, unless your router has managed to tear a hole in the spacetime continuum.
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Post by Yla on May 9, 2011 9:17:35 GMT -5
8388608 TB are exactly 2^63 Byte, which is the maximum value of a 64-bit signed integer value. Glitch on their side, definitively.
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