Apple tv using all my bandwidth

.. when i do a speed test on my iMac, it shows 5mbps where as when apple tv is not connected it shows >15mbps

My internet usage went through the roof one day and managed to pull between 12gb and 20gb a day, and I couldn't figure out what it was. After a month of harassing my ISP to look into the traffic, they finally agreed and I discovered that something was downloading an average of just under 1Gb every hour, 24 hour hours a day from Flickr.
Then I clicked and remembered that my apple TV downstairs which no-one ever watches had been changed to the Flickr screensaver. I was shocked that a screensaver could use up so much bandwidth. Needless to say I turned the screensaver off.
Try checking to see if your screensaver for your apple TV is set to iCloud photos, or Flickr or something else on the internet.

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It depends a lot on what you have installed and what apps you run. Here's a suggestion: Get Little Snitch and see what processes are accessing your internet connection.
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Apple is eating all my bandwidth

Ok, kinda getting sick of this. If there is a major issue with my computer, and I have to restore it, due to direction given by AG (apple genius) then I have to use up gigs and gigs of my bandwidth at home. I want a flash drive or some option where I don't have to download gigs of app data when I buy Logic or FCPX or Motion, or ETC. Cant use my time machine if the user if corrupt, because, hello, corrupt user back. Or what is major fail on that. You guys have a solution to this? Before comcast make me quit playing with all the interwebs goodness?

Mountain Lion is a 4.34GB file which on a broadband (high speed connection) can take 2 to 2-1/2 hours.
Keep in mind, for downloading Mountain Lion from the App Store, a high speed (broadband) internet connection is strongly recommended by Apple as noted here > iTUNES STORE - MAC APP STORE - TERMS AND CONDITIONS
If you need to reinstall OS X or repair the the startup disk using Mountain Lion Recovery, that requires broadband access to the internet via Wi-Fi or an Ethernet connection. OS X is downloaded over the internet form Apple when OS X Recovery is used for reinstallation.
If you can re download Mountain Lion you can make your own install disc or a USB install drive.
http://osxdaily.com/2012/07/25/create-os-x-mountain-lion-boot-dvd-usb-drive-lion diskmaker/
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Open the App Store. From the menu bar click Store > Sign In
Click Purchases from the top of the App Store window.
Select which apps you want to re download. Then right or control click where you see Installed then click Install.
Make sure and use the same Apple ID used for the original purchase.
You can backup apps such as Logic, etc, without having to re download > Mac App Store: Backing up your app purchases

Apple downloads sucking all the bandwidth

This may seem like a really stupid question. Everytime I download software updates or new podcasts etc through itunes, they totally take up pretty much all my bandwidth to the point I cant browse web pages or even use an IM client. Is there some way I can make it so these things dont eat up all my bandwidth because Im finding I have to just leave these things go overnight as my mac mini is rendered pretty much useless in terms of internet connectivity till they finish.

Unless you get some very powerful, commercial level hardware and software you are not going to be able to control bandwidth usage. However, it seems to me that something else is going on. sig is right, multitasking while installing a operating system update is a real risk. But even with a 50 meg update, it shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes on a 512 DSL connection. Same with pod casts.
Take a look at your Activity Monitor, what is the page in/out count, how full is your hard drive?

Locationd using all available bandwidth

I know that locationd is used to provide OS X's "Core Location", and uses skyhook, the same service that is used by the iPod Touch to locate itself.
That doesn't explain why locationd is consuming all available (incoming) bandwidth, however. Has anybody else run into this issue? Does anybody know why locationd would do this!?!

Did you try using the Min Load % field for Resource in the resource master ?

What kind of trojans would cause large uploads causing me to use all my bandwidth?

If there isn't a virus that infects IMacs what would cause the above???

Are you running any backup software other than Time Machine? There was another post this week about Western Digital's backup software for their external drives running all the time and hogging processor cycles. The same thing could happen if you are using an online file backup service. Don't know if iCloud is acting that way but you may want to ask in the iCloud forum if you have it on your computer.
Make sure you have Activity Monitor set so that you are not missing some notoriously greedy background processes. There is a "Show" option in the AM toolbar that, by default, is set to "My Processes." Change it to "All Processes to get the big picture:

Macbook pro using all bandwidth

I have a MacBook Pro for use at my work.
Our internet connection is not the best but recently i have been told that my PC is using all the bandwidth, even when i have very few programs running.
The company telephone is run on the internet and when I'm logged on the network it affects the connection.
The phone company are saying that i am using all the bandwidth.
Can someone advise how i can check to see what may be causing it.
Thanks in advance.

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Photostream uses all my upload bandwidth and i have no photo.

Hello, well, i came back home today and noticed that something was using all my upload bandwidth. I closed all the apps and it was still being used. So i opened Activity Monitor and had no idea about what was using all that bandwidth. I just noticed few apps using CPU. I don't know why but i tried to force quit Photostream and it freed my UP bandwidth. I rebooted my MBP and i immediatelly saw about 20kb/s BW usage without any app started. So i checked iCloud preferences and disabled Photo Stream and the BW usage dropped down to 1-2kb/s.
But why is that? I mean, i had no photo streamed. Aperture and iPhoto had Photostream with 0 photos inside and it was disabled on both. iPhone too. So why if there was no photos to stream it was using my upload bandwidth?

No.
Sorry.
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Apple mobile device use all cpu

After I have updated to Itunes 10.5 apple MobileDevice use all my cpu,I tried to uninstall all apple programs and reinstall them but the problem appears again.
To uninstall and reinstall fixed the the same problem with itunes 10.4.
I hope someone is able to help me.

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Ubd was eating up all network bandwidth after latest upgrade.

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When the OS X 10.8.2-update (2.0) was installed on my MacBook Air,
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I was given a link to this thread by an AppleCare representative.
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Apple TV2 using bandwidth while streaming from iTunes

I am wondering if anyone has solved the elusive issue as to why my recently purchased Apple TV2 is using my ISP bandwidth when using home sharing from iTunes on my MB. I am using an Airport Extreme (less than 2 years old) with the latest firmware, and this issue is still occurring. I do not have iCloud, or iTunes Match enabled. I have never had this issue when using my Airport Express running to my home stereo, but suddenly i've used 1.46G of bandwidth on Saturday night while streaming 3 hours of music using Apple TV2.
While I am a self admitted Apple junkie, this issue causes me great concern and not what I would expect from an Apple product.
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Okay, try this simple test. Disconnect your modem/router from the internet (i.e. unplug the coax cable or phone line) and then see if you can access your music on the Apple TV (under the "Computers" menu). If the music and videos still work then that indicates that you aren't streaming that content using iCloud or iTunes Match.
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Here is a bit more detail.
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There are two parts to this:
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2) The brief answer, if you want Individual Apple_IDs to control each computer, is to buy new copies of Mac OS X under those new Apple_IDs and re-download and re-Install. Mac OS X is customized to the Apple_ID before it is downloaded.

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