Rental Tenant Data Usage

one decent top end PlayStation game is easily over 100GB..

take the average over a month then see, not just on one day because that's unfair.
 
Wrath of Khan said:
one decent top end PlayStation game is easily over 100GB..

take the average over a month then see, not just on one day because that's unfair.
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You're missing the point. December was taken as an example. Here is the summary for October.

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zerak said:
You're missing the point. December was taken as an example. Here is the summary for October.

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Genuine ask.. why does it matter? Nothing dodgy would be consistently 200GB and you forget you are also using that network. So split the usage in half :P

Get a decent router and set their speed to half the line speed; else ask them to get their own line
 
I'm sure you will call me the tenant from hell then with my 5.4TB per day usage... :cautious:

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RedViking said:
What does it matter? Internet is not capped and 300GB is nothing for streaming Netflix and YouTube. Flip, just games alone are between 80-150 GB.

What is it that bothers you?

There is nothing that should concern you. Not even if they use a 1000GB should you need to worry.

I honestly can't figure out what it is that is the problem and why your tenants needs to be punished for it?
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Some people just want to be difficult. Internet is free. Stop being Karens.
 
zerak said:
Good Day all

I have tenants that are allowed to use the house's fiber network as part of their rental contract. However, it has recently come to my attention (on my ISP's data usage reports for the past 4 months) that these tenants download 200-300gb of data on some days. Before confrontation I would just like to confirm if it is indeed on their side where this massive amount of data is being transferred. I have a Zyxel EMG3525-T50B router that was installed by my ISP which does not have a lot of features.

The tenants have plugged their own router/Wi-Fi extender device into one of the LAN slots on the Zyxel router. Is there perhaps some software or other method I can use in order to monitor the amount of traffic that is passed through this specific LAN port for specific time periods. As mentioned, the router has very limited capabilities, (or I might be missing the function that can assist with this.)

I have also attached some usage graphs indicating spikes in use. This on days (for example 8/9/23 and 31 December) where I was out of the country therefor my suspicion that these large amounts of data are being downloaded by the tenants. I am also a bit concerned about what can possibly be using this much data....

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I first just want to make sure it is indeed the tenants that are hogging the internet. Afterwords my plan is to remove their LAN cable and only allow them to join a "Guest" Hotspot with limited bandwidth and capabilities on the network as I am concerned about the risk, they are opening my entire network up to. Any suggestions in this regard will also be much appreciated.

I am not to clued up on the IT side but hope the above makes sense and any assistance would be much appreciated.
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How happy are you otherwise with your tenants as you are unhappy with their 'high' data usage and mentioned they are not fond of working?
 
A long term solution might be to move to Ubiquiti or Reyee HW so that you are able to manage the network better.
 
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