internet usage

[tobyw]

Sometimes Im get pop up warnings from google chrome informing me that my internet usage is very high. Today I was advised that I had used 450 mb. in a short period of time.
I checked my connection manager and it said I had only received 25mb and sent 3.49mb.
Any ideas on this?
I would appreciate an explanation.
Many thanks,
Tobyw

[Old_Geezer]

Excuse my ignorance, but an Internet browser is monitoring the data received/sent ? Seems an unnecessary addition to me.

With such a large discrepancy one must be wrong. I'd hope your connection manager wouldn't miss 421MB so I suspect the browser having issues.

[tobyw]

thanks for reply

[deggers316]

are you on a wireless router?
is it secure with a password some one could be stealing your download using wifi,,
could be next door or even a person in a car parked outside your houseusing a laptop, ive seen this done twice before

[paulaCC]

I had this when new people came next door on a house share .They were all very computer savvy youngsters you said they idnt have a Tv license as they went oncomputers for some sort of TV I tried al sorts spent weeks altering pwor and contacting my provider It turned out I had a bug which was sending things outrom m computer

[tobyw]

thanks all. I have a wireless router.

[ChuckFickens]

Just get rid of whatever add-on you have installed that's telling you this, it's clearly a load of rubbish.

And even if somebody else was using your wireless your browsers wouldn't know anything about it!