I need some help, would be thankful if someone give me the idea for this.
We've a wireless internet connection in our office and the day since then our office has switched from a dynamic IP to a static IP, the data consumption has increased more than doubled.
We have a 20 GB monthly limit but do not have any internet consumption at our office except the emails we receive and the anti-virus or software updates (which are manual). The only thing we do is to connect the software on the machine via remote desktop (as we have 2 office locations), which i don't think, could be a cause of excessive usage.
We have even put a restriction recently so that only the IPs (which we have added in our modem firmware) could connect to the internet, but event then within a week we have got a notice from the provider that we have exceeded our 50% data consumption limit.
- Someone has told me that the modem has been configured to use extranet (don't know how to check that) which should be reset to use intranet to avoid this extra usage. By this way, we won't be able to use the static IP, but our usage would decrease gradually (not sure about this, would that help?). We are using windows 7 on all PCs Any ideas?