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blahyawnblah · 2017-05-01, 05:06

Came back home to a notice of exceeding my bandwidth allowance. I opened up my network usage and saw kodi pulling down about 2mbit/sec from akamai.net before I closed it. I wasn't streaming anything and it was just showing the screen saver.

**Karellen** · 2017-05-01, 05:12

Akamai is a content delivery system, which is used by many, many different companies. Akamai itself does nothing but provide a platform and delivery service.

Most likely you have some add-ons installed that have been accessing the net in the background. That's the trouble with unofficial Kodi add-ons, you just never know what they get upto in the background.

Why don't you post a debug log, and maybe some of the experienced users may be able to spot something... but I have a feeling your post may immediately be sent to the bin for breaching the forum rules. See here... http://kodi.wiki/view/Banned_Add-ons

If you don't have any of these installed, post your debug log. If you do... well Kodi is not your issue.

blahyawnblah · 2017-05-01, 05:43

No unofficial addons. Just the basic ones like youtube and some meta data ones.

I didn't have debugging enabled before it happened and it hasn't happened since.

Kodi 17.1
Windows 10
64 Bit
32GB ram

**Karellen** · 2017-05-01, 05:45

Ok, understood.

How do you know it was Kodi then?

Maybe Windows update? or another program on your computer?

blahyawnblah · 2017-05-01, 05:53

I opened up resource monitor and saw kodi transferring the data.

**Martijn** · 2017-05-01, 07:15

You have some screensaver installed?

blahyawnblah · 2017-05-01, 18:49

(2017-05-01, 07:15)Martijn Wrote: You have some screensaver installed?

Just the default one that's the Apple clone.

**Martijn** · (This post was last modified: 2017-05-01, 18:52 by Martijn.)

(2017-05-01, 18:49)blahyawnblah Wrote:
(2017-05-01, 07:15)Martijn Wrote: You have some screensaver installed?

Just the default one that's the Apple clone.

First that's not the default at all.
Second it will burn a shitload of data as it continuously streams those videos. Go to it's settings to download the videos.

blahyawnblah · 2017-05-01, 19:16

(2017-05-01, 18:51)Martijn Wrote: First that's not the default at all.
Second it will burn a shitload of data as it continuously streams those videos. Go to it's settings to download the videos.

It's not? Guess I wasn't paying attention when I enabled it. Good to know. Thanks.

therealjoeblow · (This post was last modified: 2017-05-25, 23:16 by therealjoeblow.)

(2017-05-01, 05:06)blahyawnblah Wrote: Came back home to a notice of exceeding my bandwidth allowance. I opened up my network usage and saw kodi pulling down about 2mbit/sec from akamai.net before I closed it. I wasn't streaming anything and it was just showing the screen saver.

2 mbit/s = 0.00025 gb/s = 0.015gb/min = 0.9gb/hr = 21.6gb/24hr day

If you pulled a whopping 235gb (0.2TB) while you were gone for part of the day, Kodi streaming screensaver videos at 2mbit/s is not your source.

Assuming the 235gb was over a 24 hour day, that's 24mbit/s. If it was over 8 hours, that's 72mb/s. That's a fully saturated network connection all day long.

Cheers
TRJB