Jon,
I think the answer is in your question...
As far as I am aware, Bigpond charges for all traffic (other than
from their own servers), so Software Update downloads will count
towards the total.
Assuming that a bunch of Software updates were installed in the last
month, that could easily account for 750MB...
A number of other ISP's allow free traffic from Akamai's servers -
would definitely be worth a look!
Hope this helps!
Steve.
PS: was all set to vote for Ronni for WotY too - but couldn't get
past the Collingwood allegiance :)
On 25/05/2007, at 3:32 PM, Jon Davison wrote:
I wonder if anyone could help my friend with this problem, or if
anyone has experienced similar things. BigPond are stating that she
is currently at 759Mb usage with her emails, and are going to start
charging her for
overuse. I have had a look at her mail folder in 'Users/Library/
Mail' and it is only 49.9Mb at present. She does not download
anything off the internet, and does not receive or send large files.
Can anyone be using her account, if so to what purpose? and how can
they do this? I assume that she does not need a firewall for the
Mac, as long as she downloads the latest security patches from
Software Update?
So it would appear that someone is downloading files using her
account? she only has one machine and lives alone. We have no idea
where this usage is coming from. I have copied her (Mrs Nola
Turner) into this
message, just in case you may wish to email her direct for more
info. She uses an iMac/1.83GHz intel/OS 10.4.4/512Mb RAM/320Gb HD.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
With thanks
Jon
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