We've been hitting out bandwidth limit the last two months, so we decided to start keeping a closer eye on it (to avoid charges). I installed a program called Bandwidth Monitor. It seems nice and keeps good logs. I had another program before this one and the same following problem occurred.

I went to bed at about 1am. I checked my usage before I went to bed and I was at something like 30-40mb (it resets at 12am). I woke up at about 5am and put a youtube video on while falling back asleep. When I got up at 9am, I woke my computer up (sleep after 15 mins), and checked  my usage. It's at 500mb, which is more than I used for the entirety of yesterday and I haven't even done anything. This happened a few days ago too, where it used 2-3GB.

Ideas??

Do you have a wireless router in your home?  Maybe you should check to see if someone is using your network. 

Do you have a wireless router in your home?  Maybe you should check to see if someone is using your network. 

The monitor only monitors from my adapter. We are on wireless, but no unusual IPs have popped up on the network, and even if they did it shouldn't affect the network traffic for my adapter. The traffic seems to be entirely download traffic. I've also run anti-virus/anti-malware and disabled most automatic updaters.

adobe updates. i don't understand your computer/adaptor setup, your computer is off but it's still ticking over data use? sometimes programs like that can only update when the connection is closed/computer is turned off...

adobe updates. i don't understand your computer/adaptor setup, your computer is off but it's still ticking over data use? sometimes programs like that can only update when the connection is closed/computer is turned off...

Adobe updates was on, but I don't see where I can disable it from starting. I looked for a service but there wasn't any. I ended up closing the process. :: shrug ::

I'm also baffled as to how it could use ~450mb in about 15 minutes.

Updater has been disabled, although it still had updates to download so I'm skeptical that it was doing anything (unless it is just downloading the same thing over and over).

bandwidth pixies.

thanks i will look into that program