Large Uploads on my Account

BobMc

Hey Gang, recently got VDSL a huge improvement on our past poor BB, now getting 18down 5up, which we're very happy with, we've a very large upload showing on our usage last month is was 6gb downloaded, but 20gb uploaded,
any ideas why such large uploading, Internet mainly used for day to day browsing, we use streaming music on sonos alot and son plays Xbox a fair bit, I'm guessing its this, any idea we're just curious more than anything ??

OneEightSeven

Anyone using torrents?

BobMc

No torrents

ED E

Unless he plays xbox 18hrs a day it isn't that.

Check for dropbox, icloud or onedrive syncing. Or carbonite. After that its probably torrents.

Anyone streaming using Popcorntime?

Praetorian

These days 20gb is nothing. So don't worry about it unless your wireless has been hacked. You can monitor that on your router. With cloud services I sometimes upload hundreds of gigs per month. This is what vdsl is really great for

OneEightSeven

Praetorian wrote: »

These days 20gb is nothing. So don't worry about it unless your wireless has been hacked. You can monitor that on your router. With cloud services I sometimes upload hundreds of gigs per month. This is what vdsl is really great for

It's completely out of proportion from his download of 6GB, though.

Johnboy1951

we use streaming music on sonos alot

I know nothing of sonos ...... but am wondering if this acts as a server and thus uploads your music?

AlanS181824

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

I know nothing of sonos ...... but am wondering if this acts as a server and thus uploads your music?

As far as I'm aware it is a HiFi system, you connect a Sonos speaker to your router or a Sonos Bridge and then stream your music wirelessly to it.

Think of it like a very very very expensive Bluetooth speaker that any one on your network can access.

I wouldn't say this would use much data to be honest OP!

Johnboy1951

20GB upload in a month is huge if you are not deliberately serving some files to someone/somewhere.

6GB down with 20GB up is totally unbalanced if not serving up files.

For instance I do not do torrenting or any other serving of files and I might see

60GB down
3GB up

for the month.

Is it possible that you got the up/down figures mixed up?

Stats to date for my connection:

Total Downloads to date this month: 29091 MB (28.409 GB)
Total Uploads to date this month: 1226 MB (1.198 GB)

BobMc

nope, dont have figures mixed up I'm bang on them, we use Deezer on sonos and also have a NAS drive with tons of music on it that you can play from also, I'll check the NAS to see if its trying to upload anything, XBOX would only be few hours a week especially in summertime, as I said Vodafone are onto me or anything I just figured it looked a bit odd !

goldenhoarde

Maybe someone installed something like onedrive and its uploading the contents of your pc to there for cloud storage.

Johnboy1951

BobMc wrote: »

nope, dont have figures mixed up I'm bang on them, we use Deezer on sonos and also have a NAS drive with tons of music on it that you can play from also, I'll check the NAS to see if its trying to upload anything, XBOX would only be few hours a week especially in summertime, as I said Vodafone are onto me or anything I just figured it looked a bit odd !

Yes it is, given you have no idea what might be doing it.

BobMc

I shall do some more thorough investigating

BobMc

Hey Gang, just an update, still some high uploads this months stats 14gb downloaded and 18gb uploaded, thought it might be the CCTV systems trying to upload even though we dont have it set up correctly but its been unplugged from the network now, any idea would a NAS drive have an unusual setting that may be causing this?

Johnboy1951

Sure sounds to me like you have a server running and someone is using it ..... I would check what ports you have exposed and for what purpose.

Maybe someone is playing the music from the NAS from the internet connection?

BTW ..... just to confirm something ..... the stats are from your ISP and not some monitoring software you are running locally?

BobMc

Stats are from Vodafone account, not too hot on changing ports the only ports I recently went at on the modem settings was for Xbox live to try help keep the connection

Johnboy1951

BobMc wrote: »

Stats are from Vodafone account, not too hot on changing ports the only ports I recently went at on the modem settings was for Xbox live to try help keep the connection

Do a scan of all your ports from Grc.com - Shields Up

That should tell you if you have something open or not.

seanp_25

Press Ctrl+Alt+Esc to open Task Manager, then go to Performance tab and click on Resource Monitor.

Go to the Network tab. This starts monitoring which applications and processes are using your net connection. Leave it open for a while and sort the list by Total (B/sec) and look for anything unusual.

Johnboy1951

Re-reading this thread, I suspect the CCTV or associated device/s ....... they would be consistent so some mis-setting could be the cause, or depending on how they are set up they might/would be sending information constantly.

I would look at this set up a bit closer .......

BobMc

I've disconnected the CCTV recorded from the web for now, till I successfully get it to work online correctly, I'll see for next months stats the upload figures, nothing unusual looking on the Network Task Manager, I'll have a look at the Open Ports site recommened here too thanks Guys for the helpfull hints !!

BobMc

Hey All, been keeping an eye on stats now that I've had the fibre for some months now, the uploads have reduced over time but I still feel they are high, I've compared a few months now to see whats going on
so
Jul 14 - Aug 13 Up - 265gb Down - 82gb
Aug 14 - Sept 13 Up 120gb Down - 109gb
Spet 14 - Oct 13 Up 69gb Down - 66gb

so its coming down everymonth but I've never really discovered the root cause of It, Keeping a close watch though

h57xiucj2z946q

If you have Windows machines, you can monitor bandwidth and connections with: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ie/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx

Hope you don't have malware that is using large bandwidth. e.g. mail spammers, DoSS'ers or file serving bots: https://www.google.ie/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1CHMO_enIE499IE499&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=xdcc+bot+trojan

Roynie

Try running Malwarebytes to see if you have malware on your system. I had some large downloads on my wifi broadband and it turned out that was exactly what I had. Just google Malware bytes.