capnfinvark that is very bizarre. As mentioned, higher resolution streams use more data, but numbers like that would be streaming 4K material on a constant basis. For example, Netflix streams 4K at about 17 Mbps (maximum, they can actually achieve 4K as low as 10 Mbps). That would be a hair over 1 Gbit per minute and 61 Gbit per hour. Converting gigabit to gigabyte (most ISPs measure in GB), that's 7.6 GB per hour. Streaming constantly for 24 hours would still only be 182 GB. I can't fathom what a Roku could be doing with a data stream like that. It doesn't have any internal memory that could absorb a fraction of that data. I have never seen that with any of my Roku devices, both wired and wireless connected.
You can remove your stored WiFi settings by going into the Roku settings menu and under System/Advanced system settings you will see Network connection Reset. This removes all your previously saved WiFi SSIDs and passwords and restarts your Roku. Then it won't be able to connect to your network wirelessly unless you set it up again. Your Ethernet connection will remain working without a problem.
Thanks Dan - I agree. I'm in IT during the day and nothing it was doing made sense. I almost believed the eero was getting the identification wrong until i triple checked all the macs for all my devices and confirmed they lined up.
a runaway process doing effectively nothing is all i could come up with as I agree there is no legitmate use case I can think of where a Roku would be able to utilize this kind of stream. My fiber provider agreed that they rarely saw anyone achieve that kind of data rate even for an hour much less 12-14 though many people think they need it 🙂
I have never seen any behavior like this from the Rokus either. I did remove my wifi info as well as blocking the wifi mac on the eero - and I'm hopeful that stops it - but because i don't know what process is going crazy, I can't be sure it won't suddenly try to download some random piece of info over the ethernet next time. Though the fact it made no effort to use the Ethernet during this crazy behavior even though the ethernet continued being used for all legit use gives me hope it really was some kind of secondary interface gone mad issue.
I mostly care of course because while my base fiber plan is a great deal, the $10/100GB overage is not at all a great deal - especially when the Roku manages to charge up $20-30 of overage in one night doing nothing 😕
Yeah, I have an unlimited data plan with Comcast, and it's worth it even though there's only three of us in the house. My wife uses IPTV channels constantly, so there's a pretty constant stream throughout the day. I telework 4 days a week when I'm not traveling, and my daughter teleworks one day a week. She's also a heavy gamer, so that's likely a bit of my data as well. If I didn't have unlimited data, the ceiling would be one TB per month. I slightly exceed that every month. I could probably make a bit of an effort to stay under it, but it wouldn't really save me hardly any money. It's actually less expensive to rent their modem (which provides free unlimited data) than to provide my own modem and pay for unlimited data. Crazy, I know. But it's a fact.
This just happened to me as well. I caught it during the day when I saw a spike in my usage through AT&T. At the top of the list was Roku between 11 and 1 PM. It spikes up and no one was watching it. Nothing was being downloaded. TV wasn’t on. But this thing was just sucking from the Internet.
