Windows 10: Windows reports 150gb of data usage while my router detects 250gb. Which is wrong?

As I said, under data usage setting the ethernet on my computer claims its used 150gb of data. However, when you check on the google mesh wify settings, it claims my computer has used 250gb of data. Which is correct? and where is all that extra data going? If this is a router problem more than a windows problem let me know, and ill post this elsewhere.

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Data Usage

Well not sure what to make of it. The Windows updates are big but not +150GB / month big.

If you open task manager, click on Network tab, sort by usage, most usage at top, does anything stand out.

Is your bitdefender new (ish). My Norton offers to make backups in the cloud, again though this is a lot of data.

Is your computer set up such that others can get to internet through your machine, like a hotspot.

See if you get lucky and find the activity is task manager.

Maybe another member following this thread can suggest a sysinternals tools.

 

Windows 10 Data usage "bug". No internet usage report

The Data Usage report works as expected in Windows 10 Home (ver. 10.0.16299.125), shown below. The most likely cause of the issue is that data collection for Data Usage is not enabled. Initial setting for data usage collection is made on installation, and can also be tweaked afterwards in the Registry, as well as Windows Privacy Settings. That said, though the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DataCollection on the PC used for the image is set to 0, the report works!





However, this does not seem to be a limitation of the Ed Win 10 version itself. You might check the following:

• If the PC you're using is at or from a school or other environment administered as a network, has Group Policy been set to prevent data collection?
  
• Is the OS updated to the latest version?
  
• Are there missing or corrupted files? Use DISM and SFC to detect and fix an issue.
  

BTW, there are third-party tools such as free Glasswire that produce detailed reports of network usage, including application and IP addresses.

 

Data card usage in windows 10

Hi,



I understand your concern and will assist you to resolve this issue.

I suggest you to follow the steps to check which application is using Data.

• 
  Open the Settings app, and click/tap on the
  Network & Internet icon.
  
• 
  Click/tap on Data usage on the left side. You will now see a general overview of the network data usage from the last 30 days on your PC.
  
• 
  Click/tap on the Usage details link on the right side under
  Overview.
  
• 
  You will now see how much network data has been used by each app from the last 30 days.
  

After that go to task manager and End Task the Application which uses the internet.

• 
  Press ctrl +shift +Esc to open Task manger.
  

Hope this helps. If the issue remains unresolved, please get back to us and we would be happy to help