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Carly
Thanks - yes I'm familiar with data rates. Our Rokus are all set for 720 for bandwidth purposes. And we keep them on the home screen when not streaming to ensure no background data streams. The data rates I've seen on these five days since last month average out to about 30GB/hour which is at least 3 times if not more of a typical 4k stream (and we don't use any 4k streams).
As was mentioned on this original thread - this appears to be the device caught in some kind of download loop since unless the Roku is capable of self-streaming 3-4 4k streams by itself simultaneously there is no way I could see legitamte use of the device even interactively could result in this much traffic. But on top of that it randomly starts at like 3 or 4 am when we have been asleep and not using the Roku for a while. So I was hoping someone might know if this was a bug similar to the one above maybe reintroduced by the recent software update it got in I think July or August or if anyone was able to help try to figure out what it was doing so a bug could be resolved.
Otherwise I may have to stop using it and replace it with a device that isn't doing that- I hate to do that as the ultra has never done this in the years I've had it and this behavior has already cost us more than a new Roku would cost 😕
