Ridiculous usage warning

Ok, so we have a 40GB usage limit, and we never exceed it, in fact we very rarely go anywhere near it. Got an e-mail today that we are close to exceeding it for August, check our account and we have used 33.5GB!! What the hell?
This absolutely has to be an error. Have we been hacked?
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BoroPhil wrote:
Hi, thanks for the response. Our usage is now 41GB and has gone over the limit, it's about 38Up and 3Down.
I rang up today and they told me 3 devices have been connecting to our hub, we have one computer and that's it. No smartphones, no x-boxes, no nothing. We haven't steamed anything on the TV, no downloads, no HD. apparently 5GB was uploaded last Saturday when we were away for the night!
So, presumably we must have been hacked? I think we are using the default wireless key, but the hub certainly isn't visible.
Anyway, the very helpful guy on the phone (albeit slightly hard work to understand) has turned our wireless off and is re-setting the key which we should get on Monday. and he's going to remove the usage from these two random devices.
Anyone know how for a wireless network reaches? Is this likely to be our neighbours or could it be quite some distance?
Fingers crossed it's sorted now, though it has been a bit of an inconvenice, especially as I had to hunt down a spare ethernet cable and move the computer half way across the front room just to get on the net.
Hi again.
As John said, being hacked is extremely unlikely - and frankly not correct.
As for your wireless key, that is for you to decide what to have, not the helpdesk. If you don't actually use wireless, then there is no need to have it on. You can set the wireless key whenever you wish, and any device using wireless will need to alter their settings to match.
Did the helpdesk say what these "random" devices were, and what usage they used ? I've never heard of anything to suggest that different devices actually had their own usage - to be honest, that is quite wrong. Devices can connect to your hub, but that is BTFon. That usage is recorded on the hub, but 100% excluded from your usage.
More interesting is the comment about the 5GB upload. If that figure given to you was correct, how did the helpdesk explain the usage you are currently seeing of 3GB up ? - unless you were given a usage of 5GB download rather than upload.
Something isn't right here, indicating a serious issue with either the information you were supplied, or that the usage monitor for your connection is recording other than your usage.
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Hello again
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It looks like I just found the problem.
In the synthesis process options under "Xilinx Specific Properties" the Add I/O Buffers was unchecked(Probably from the way the original project was generated). Checking it caused the design to not have these errors.
From the XST User guide I wouldn't have expected such an error if this is unchecked. The only reason I checked it was because I wanted to set everything to default values.
I will accept this as a solution. Hopefully it helps someone in the future.

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I have recently experienced "waiting for" many web sites to respond or load. Using Bit Defender security, and both Chrome and Firefox 6. what's up?

I am running Vista. Updates are current. Recently installed Bid Defender security. Have reloaded Firefox 6 several times, Google Chrome also. both browsers say they are "waiting" for either the website, or some ad to respond much more often and longer than before. Any suggestions?

Sorry Tominique, great answer to the question I didnt ask. I know how to add data to my plan.
My point is, my usage pattern has changed little. yet I am using at a rate 5 times what I was before. And I rarely stream content so I know thats not it. And the times I do, does not coincide with those ridiculous usage figures.
I get that having more bandwidth will open a stream "wider" so to speak and cause more data usage in order to get better quality. However, in the case of Audio, that extra usage doesnt even come close to justifying these kinds of figures. Much less when posting at 4am when I am fast asleep.
And forgive me for being a bit curt, but does my post read like I needed to be told that using wifi will save me cell data usage? I know it was pretty long, but at least read it carefully before proposing something so mundanely simplistic.
And Brian68- Yup, I agree Spot on with you on song size. A 10mb song is a 10mb song. Doesn't matter how fast the stream is. I could see music being compressed, but it most definitely doesn't get any bits added just because the bandwidth opens up. lol What? VZW somehow upgraded my itunes match content from 256kb up to lossless? doubtful.

Ridiculous usage warning

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