IPhone uploaded 12 gigs over wifi in 5 hours while not in use, what could be doing it?
The other day I saw that I was over quota on the wireless network on campus, so I went looking for the reason. Since I work for the tech department at the school, I loaded up my history... apparently my iphone uploaded 12 gigs in 5 hours, while it was just sitting at my desk unused!
What kind of crazy app uploads that much?
When I'm not using the iphone and leave the phone on my desk on wifi it seems to upload a lot. Last week apparently 4 gigs in 1.5 hours and now 12 gigs in 5 hours, insane!
I cannot for the life of me imagine what could require that kind of upload.
And completely offball also... 4 gigs DOWN during those same 5 hours!!! I wasn't on youtube, I wasn't on itunes, I wasn't on the app store... the phone was just sitting there.
It seems rather insane to me. Anyone have a similar experience or have any clue why this might be happening?
(iOS 4.3.3, iPhone 4)
Oh, and tethering/personal hotstop was turned off.
Have you tried downloading some data tracking apps on the iphone itself?
I installed 3 different ones, two of which track while running on the iphone. All three reported under 100 megs wifi usage while the university network yet again reported gigs up and down in under 2 hours (12 gigs down, 8 gigs up). I've contacted them and they're looking into it because the discrepancy is insane.
Maybe you should try tracking with both the router and on the iphone itself.
What I find amusing is that my phone doesn't even use 1 gig a month on 3G (and I use my phone a lot). Also my home wifi usage is nothing like that reported by my university... if I did 12 gigs per day at home, I'd be using our cable bandwidth cap all by my lonesome... which doesn't happen.
I'm starting to think the iPhone in 4.3.X does some weird stuff that makes some monitoring tools to mis-report data usage.
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