Just How Do You Use This Much Bandwdth On A Mobile Device?

[ProDave]

Many of you will know we run a  B&B and give the guests free access to our wi fi.

We are on a limited package with a 10GB monthly allowance, and a slow connection, 2MB on a good day.

Up until 27th of this month I had used less than 6GB

Then a guest arrived. Shortly the "you are getting close to your allowance" emails started to arrive.

Usage now up to 12GB

So that's 6GB used by this guest and his mobile device in 3 days.

2GB per day.

Just WHAT can possibly use that much?  I can't believe he's streaming films and watching them, our speed is so slow that would be painful.  But what can he be downloading and storing on something that must have very little storage?

Perhaps I'll turn the wi fi off and wait for him to complain?

 

[Sidewinder]

I thought there were now new laws governing "free" internet public access which means you have to log ip's MAC's sites etc.?

 

[ProDave]

Most guests that just use email etc, their usage does not even register as significant.

I just don't think I would know how to use 2GB per day even if I wanted to.

 

[Blue Duck]

Setting up a new phone, tablet or device can be a real bandwidth muncher I used 18gb in the first month of owning a new phone.

I seem to remember my father had a similar problem with a kindle.

In 7days I have used 884mb on the WiFi and 142mb of mobile data on one phone.

Or the guy was a complete ***ker?

 

[ProDave]

Gosh I live a sheltered life up here.

What do these "new phones" do to use 18GB just in setting them up?  Even if they completely downloaded the entire operating system, it wouldn't take that much.

It took about 5GB to download and install ubunto on the lappy a few months ago, even that didn't take us over 10GB for the month.

In the absence of such "mobile devices" 10GB is plenty per month for three of us and a bit of occasional usage by a few guests.

 

[Steve3948]

Well one film can be anything from 850mb to 1.5gb and that's not even in HD then you can double it.

 

[Blue Duck]

Gosh I live a sheltered life up here.

What do these "new phones" do to use 18GB just in setting them up?  Even if they completely downloaded the entire operating system, it wouldn't take that much.

It took about 5GB to download and install ubunto on the lappy a few months ago, even that didn't take us over 10GB for the month.

In the absence of such "mobile devices" 10GB is plenty per month for three of us and a bit of occasional usage by a few guests.

Everythings in the cloud now. :innocent

Synced photo's, music, dropbox, g+, gmail, apps, etc etc

18gb is probably quite easy  :blink:

 

[ProDave]

Well one film can be anything from 850mb to 1.5gb and that's not even in HD then you can double it.

So he's watching more than a full length film each day then?

Like I say, I would struggle to use that much if I tried really hard.

 

[NozSpark]

Can you throttle the WiFi speed at all?? It might deter streaming

 

[Marvo]

I'd check your router logs for bittorrent protocol traffic. How close are you to your neighbours? Are you sure it's a guest and not someone else within wi-fi range?

 

[kme]

Dave: Paddler is right. You, as the provider of the wifi, have to have a log of guests mac addresses, and what / where they visit.

Else - if one of the guests is looking at illegal stuff ( porn / bombs / etc) - its YOU that the law descends on mate.

I`ll see if I can find the relevant info.......

http://www.candengo.co.uk/wifi-law/

For starters mate

....and this is better:

http://www.g5tech.com/your-responsibilities.asp

Two "good" solutions exist - from our searching r.e the hotel.

One is "antamedia" ( www and com) ; the other, more expensive initially but super-controllable, is Cisco Meraki ( this is what the hotel eventually settled on - the UK sales guy is Ollie Reyes - and he`s VERY good ).

 

[steptoe]

Jaysus, I generally hit about 1.5G a month on the phone during the road race season, Internet radio and some tv highlights, other than that maybe 800mb usually,

At home I would guess I don't hit 10G most months,

though I did download a 600G file in 3 days a while back. :|

 

[Andy™]

WTF are you downloading thats 600GB?!

 

[Sidewinder]

Dave: Paddler SIDEWINDER is right. You, as the provider of the wifi, have to have a log of guests mac addresses, and what / where they visit.

Else - if one of the guests is looking at illegal stuff ( porn / bombs / etc) - its YOU that the law descends on mate.

Corrected that for you as I was the one who brought up the monitoring thing, not the paddler!

 

[steptoe]

WTF are you downloading thats 600GB?!

Mmmmmm,

I could tell you,

But it's non of your F'in business, :slap

 

[pewter]

get an unlimited package.

 

[pewter]

Im with BT fibre wassit package, they throttle torrents during peak hours.

If Dave had an unlimited package for an extra £5 a month he might not get the bill for extra usage.

 

[steptoe]

Im with talk talk, and, tbh, i shat mesel after downloading that 600G file, but, nothing, I get a slow basic connection anyway, but, Im on business and they told me I dont get throttled, even at peak times my speed never changes, I get priority over domestic, and, its all domestic more or less round here.

I am looking at upgrading tbh, as when the wife and lad are streaming I do notice some lag/buffering.

btw, Im doing well to get 4-5 speed atm, it averages at 3.

 

[SPECIAL LOCATION]

Dave: Paddler is right. You, as the provider of the wifi, have to have a log of guests mac addresses, and what / where they visit.

Else - if one of the guests is looking at illegal stuff ( porn / bombs / etc) - its YOU that the law descends on mate.

On a side note:---

I know the campsite we visit on our hols logs who is visiting what & when, using their WiFi access ....

They have a blog page with local info updates etc...

When the back-end of hurricane Bertha was due the site owner published on his blog the log info stats for  the number of visitors surfing various weather forecast web-sites!!!

They were the most popular search request for a couple of days!!!!

Guinness

 

[Blue Duck]

Im with BT fibre wassit package, they throttle torrents during peak hours.

If Dave had an unlimited package for an extra £5 a month he might not get the bill for extra usage.

Plus oned no Virgin round here...