Why has my bandwidth usage suddenly gone up? Is it something to do with my kindle?

[TigerFeet]

Our bandwidth usage has suddenly massively increased since mid december, probably to the order of about 5x usual use, occasionally 10x, and more importantly into the realms of having to pay extra for it.

Is it something to do with my kindle? I got it for Christmas but set up a whispernet thingy account a couple of weeks before.

I don't think we're being hacked, security is quite good as far as I know.

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Unlikely to be the Kindle as even quite large books are often under 1MB in size.

Look at things that are much more intensive, such as Video and Streaming Music/Radio.

What other things are people using in the house? Things like mobile phones, games machines, laptop & desktop computers, new tv screen (some have internet capability).

With regard to Kindle specifically, you can see all books downloaded using the Manage Kindle part of your Amazon account. If you click through to the Book details on the Amazon website, it will give you details of the download size - 653 KB is an example for a 256 page book - that's just over 1/2 a MB.

Your broadband download limit will be measured in GB's I expect. So to keep things simple, 1GB = 1000MB... so 1 GB would be enough to download nearly 2000 books! Thus why I feel it's unlikely to be the Kindle.

Thanks :)

I realise how many books 1GB will give me, but I'm wondering whether it's constantly syncing with an online account or something.

Nothing else has changed, laptop usage etc same as it's always been. THe wifi is disabled on dd1's DSi. No Xbox or anything like that.

DH & I browse the interweb pretty much daily and post on sites such as this, I FB and tweet occasionally, nothing thats heavy on bandwidth at all.

Hmmm, I wonder what it is.

I don't think it sends very much data to keep the bookmark updated.

If you can, change the router password. Whilst playing with the router, see if it has kept any logs... that may help identify the MAC address of the device using the most data. See your router manual for details of what things it logs.

I'll do that, thanks.

The router has a list of MAC addresses that it will recognise in an effort to stop anyone piggybacking but I hadn't thought to check whether it could log the usage of each device.