My network connection says I've used [2000 bazillion] GB of data this month; when I view by app it says 4GB of that was torrenting (yup, that'd be roughly correct) and then.....the rest was "OpenVPN" (I have basic ProtonVPN)...so since it doesn't seem likely shitposting on Ruqqus, checking email and five minutes of Youtube daily could possibly add up to that...wtf? 📦

8    12 Feb 2021 02:14 by u/None

Do I fundamentally misunderstand ProtonVPN and it's somehow actually a p2p system where they route other users through my connection? Possibly even when I leave it disconnected-but-desktop-app-is-still-running? So weirded out right now - trying to figure out why my internet speeds have plummeted this month. No pr0n, not uploading/downloading much of anything of value on Torrent - just doublechecked; few textbooks waiting for peers to come online, d/l-ed LOTR but deleted the torrent within a few hours of completion, etc.

7 comments

2 u/package 12 Feb 2021 02:47
Might help if you give an actual number and not "[2000 bazillion] GB".
1 u/None [OP] 12 Feb 2021 02:49
90GB? 400 GB? 900 GB? It doesn't hugely affect the issue :P It's substantially more than I could be using shitposting on Ruqqus and checking emails, but if we need a number, let's say 500GB
3 u/package 12 Feb 2021 02:58
It does matter because something like 90GB is within a reasonable amount for just watching youtube over the course of a month depending on the quality of the videos you watch. That'd also be a reasonable amount if you've downloaded a couple of steam games. Windows update can also use a lot of bandwidth especially if you have delivery optimization enabled.
1 u/None [OP] 12 Feb 2021 03:03
Nothing like steam, no YT account and they're just like 30 second videos off Ruqqus that I view so I assume they're not likely HD or adding up to much...surprised it's possible to use 90GB on that stuff though for someone who does...the internet has changed so much. Not sure, could be the Windows Update thing, I'll go look into how to disable that - or if it's possible in Windows 10. Thanks. I assume it might be slowing things down, though I assume it wouldn't be transferring 100s of GB of data since my HDD isn't even that large.
3 u/PRSXFENG 12 Feb 2021 04:59
Windows? Could be Delivery Optimization Aka turning your PC into a P2P node for windows updates.
1 u/None [OP] 12 Feb 2021 05:01
Turned it off just now, but it said it had only downloaded 250MB of updates in the past month - and when I turned off the "Deliver updates to other local PCs" (shouldn't be a problem, just a home desktop computer) it didn't appear to suggest it had ever done so.
2 u/dreclevr0d 12 Feb 2021 07:08
Big yikes, I hope I already disabled this shit.