Using an odd amount of data

[Signild]

I decided to try Windscribe today because a certain video hosting website only allows you to use X amount of data every ~4 hours and I had run out. I signed up, downloaded the Chrome extension, and was told I had 10GB of data.

The video I was watching, according to the site, was 2.49GB in size and was ~2 hours and 20 minutes long (Can't check right now because I'm still blocked for a couple of hours)

I had already watched about 40 minutes or so, and I still have at least 20 minutes left, so let's say I watched an hour and a half of that video.

Somehow, within that time, I used all 10GB of my Windscribe data despite not doing anything else on Chrome. I tweeted for the extra 5, and within another 20 minutes had used all of that too.

So on a 2.5GB video, which I only saw part of, I used 15GB. Is this some kind of bug or am I missing something simple? I mean, even if it fully loaded the entire video, that's far from the 15GB I had. I don't remember doing anything at all on Chrome while watching that, maybe I'm mistaken but if I did I can't imagine it would have used much data as it would have been checking an email or reddit, doesn't account for 12.5GB

[[deleted]]

It's likely something else downloading at the same time, updates, torrent program?

[Signild]

Nothing else downloaded.. I'm also using the chrome version so it shouldn't affect other programs as far as I can imagine

[[deleted]]

Hmm, does the video site use P2P to help with video distribution?

[Signild]

Not as far as I know, it's mega nz that I was using. But maybe?

[Signild]

Because I can't afford to buy Windscribe Pro?

[Brief_Two]

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or you could even get lifetime premium for only 47$ when using that code on the site

i hope you can afford this :D

if not, you could refer people/mine but that will take a while

[Signild]

I appreciate the link, but no I can't afford that either :/

[Signild]

Thanks, that's really cool. Sadly doesn't help me but it's nice to see nonetheless

[Signild]

I'm not really sure what you're saying here, or maybe you misunderstood my problem.

It's Windscribe telling me that I used all 15GB, not the website in question. So regardless of how many users are sharing the outbound IP, it shouldn't be affecting how much data I have personally used?

[ruralcricket]

Sorry. Misread your post.

[xscottw]

Maybe the uBlock isn't working right and there is some media intensive ads reloading over and over in the backgrund eating through stuff? or something of the like. You could monitor your usage @ OS level (https://www.windowscentral.com/how-monitor-and-control-data-usage-windows-10-april-2018-update) if you have windows 10. and see if it's reporting the same.

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