Rogers is seriously imposing their "60" gb  monthly bandwidth limit, and to me it seems like they are pushing some buttons.  On the 4th of june, all of my computers in the house had a popup in their internet browser alerting the user that we have passed 75% bandwidth limit of 60gb, which means we somehow used 45 gb in 4 days.

   That is impossible, due to the fact that my parents dont download anything, i just downloaded several psn demos at most spending 5gbs, but according to rogers i have used up 45 gigabytes in 4 days, 1 of those days my family was out .

Okay, so we stopped downloading everything including music ( even tho maybe 1 song a day). Today (june 10) i get a message saying i used up 100%.

I will be charged 2 dollars per gigabyte. How is this possible?  How can 3 computers that do not download anything, at most use internet explorer to check emails, and 5-6 gigabytes of demos reach 60gb? Makes NO sense to me... and i asked about online gaming on this forum, and you guys said it uses up 25 mb per hour, which is NOTHING compared to what we apperently used (60gb), according to rogers.

Anyone else expeirence this? I might consider telling my parents to switch isp,s if this isnt sorted out

Do you have a wireless router that isn't protected as far as the wireless goes? Someone could be using your connection to download torrents.

I have wep.

WEP is like handing out the key to your front door and expecting no one to enter. Ever hear of Backtrack? It is a Linux distro that hacks WEP encrypted passwords. Use WPA2 or atleast WPA it is harder to crack then WEP is.

Rogers' Data Usage Monitor is broken atm, so go leech all you want !

(I'm being serious)

do a spyware scan while you are at it....

WEP is not that easy to crack. It takes time ussally, you need a special prism type card, and i seriously doubt that in my wealthy neibourhood,
that anyone with the time nor intellegence nor reason, since they can afford there own internet would even attempt to do this. Also, there are 5 out of 12 networks beside me that are unsecured... Also, i am checking my router settings and it doesnt show any unidentified ip.

There is no current usage for this account: <block>

Sam what do you mean by leech, are you saying that its an error from rogers that i have used 100%, if so how do you know, what if im still charged?

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WEP is not that easy to crack. It takes time ussally, you need a special prism type card, and i seriously doubt that in my wealthy neibourhood,
that anyone with the time nor intellegence nor reason, since they can afford there own internet would even attempt to do this. Also, there are 5 out of 12 networks beside me that are unsecured... Also, i am checking my router settings and it doesnt show any unidentified ip.

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Once again, why the effort when there are same signal strength unsecured networks?

You sure the message is from Rogers? Seems pretty weird that you're getting popups about your account usage from your web browser...

(that is, unless you have a app of some kind from Rogers installed on pc)

its like this

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alerting the user that we have passed 75% bandwidth limit of 60gb

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I will be charged 2 dollars per gigabyte. How is this possible?

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Rogers is seriously imposing their "60" gb  monthly bandwidth limit
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alerting the user that we have passed 75% bandwidth limit of 60gb

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I will be charged 2 dollars per gigabyte. How is this possible?

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Originally posted by vaccination

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Rogers is seriously imposing their "60" gb  monthly bandwidth limit
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alerting the user that we have passed 75% bandwidth limit of 60gb

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I will be charged 2 dollars per gigabyte. How is this possible?

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That image is one of the first results when searching for "rogers bandwidth limit" on Google Images

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Originally posted by Steven
why the effort when there are same signal strength unsecured networks?

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the best way to verify all the upload download is to isntall a software that will count everything on each of the pcs. then you can be about sure that everything's fine.

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isntall a software that will count everything on each of the pcs. then you can be about sure that everything's fine.

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My server config page tells me traffic passing since it last reset, but I don't have limits anyway

And from personal experience, WEP can be cracked in minutes. WPA takes a lot longer, but can be done

Stop bitching and just secure the damn network. You deserve it if you can't be bothered to spend 30 seconds and just login to the router and tick WPA/WPA2.

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WEP is not that easy to crack. It takes time ussally, you need a special prism type card, and i seriously doubt that in my wealthy neibourhood,

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Did you ever consider that 4th June isn't actually the start of your billing month? They could be offset, I know mines is.

So then wahts the point of MONTHLY GIGABYTE BANDWIDTH, and again, i said "its like this" beside the picture.

     I obviously dont have it anymore because i chose awknoldge. Nobody is in my network. I checked my router. It shows 4 computer names and ips, from the last 30 days. After verifiying, i can safely say all the ips that were included and computer names are those of the computers in my house hold.  Thank you for taking the time to circle my google images picture and point out its flaws.

Once again, why cant it be rogers fault? Its not the first time rogers has lied to its customers.......

       

Because it counts per month, from the day your account was activated.

Phone them?!

And they said they will start charging in june if you go over. i got the mssage in april but didnt care because they wont be charging..

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Sam what do you mean by leech, are you saying that its an error from rogers that i have used 100%, if so how do you know, what if im still charged?

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How would i opt out?

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How would i opt out?

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Tried that in aprill, and i still got it. Plus, i should do this things because i need to be notified next time i reach over 75%.

Switch to cogeco

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Switch to cogeco EastLink

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Sympatico then

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Sympatico then

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Originally posted by tony
Switch to cogeco EastLink

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Tried that in aprill, and i still got it. Plus, i should do this things because i need to be notified next time i reach over 75%.

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aliant doesn't have limits but it's only in atlantic canada

Do you do a lot of online gaming? I know my computer is constantly using bandwidth just being connected to the Internet, I mean Messenger requires it. All of this quickly adds up .

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Originally posted by Steven
Tried that in aprill, and i still got it. Plus, i should do this things because i need to be notified next time i reach over 75%.

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That's what the usage monitor is for

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go to rogers.com and create an account, then tie in your rogers accounts to that, then under the manage my account tab you'll be able to go to "view internet useage" that can give you a day by day layout, and remember, bandwitch includes not only downloads but uploads as well

Seriously, don't ask here, we aren't Rogers support. Give them a call and see what's up. If it's an obvious problem like you said, they'll see it too and do something about it. A little bit of common sense goes a long way.