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Originally Posted by photon
What exactly is the modem transmitting when no computers are on? Diagnostic information? "Hello I'm Here". If it's more than kilobytes or maybe megabytes a day I'd be shocked. That's what, 0.005% of the cap?
What could your modem POSSIBLY have to say to the monitoring stuff that would take up 5GB a day?
EDIT: This is also presuming that the graphs are real-time or near real-time, which they may or may not be. Maybe the adding of amounts from previous days doesn't happen daily, or it updates daily but doesn't get the correct info daily, so it goes flat for a while then has a spike, etc.
Obviously if they're going to be billing based on this, it can't be flaky, but I wouldn't trust their stats quite yet, what they say and what my router says are pretty different.
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Issue is, who regulates it?
Shaw can say you consume whatever they want to say, and what is the recourse?
Kinda like if there was no one who would ever check gas pumps to make sure they are actually delivering the proper amount of gas at the set prices.
Shaw can come in and say you used 500GB last week and what can a customer do about it? How do you prove one way or another? As far as I know, there is no oversight, no one to check to make sure Shaw is giving it's customers a fair shake and the true usage stats...