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Posted on July 2nd, 2009 by Jon Honeyball
Honey, I downloaded the internet
You really do have to be careful when you sign up to one of those bandwidth-limited ISP accounts. It might be cheap, especially in these financially tough times, but you must ensure you don’t bust your way out of your monthly limit and run up some huge bills.
Fortunately, I’m with an ISP that doesn’t seem to mind how much data I pull through the network each month. That’s within reason of course.
But at the end of the day, he knows I am limited by having two ADSL lines and that I am a fair distance from the exchange. Think 1Mb per line and you’d be about right.
So you will doubtless be as amused as I was to see this usage log from my trusty TZ190 Sonicwall firewall. Apparently my main desktop computer had managed to download 16,777,215 Terabytes of data. And it seemingly did that in just 5 days 9 hours.
Yah boo sucks to the Acceptable Usage Policy – I think I have a backup of the entire internet now.
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July 2nd, 2009 at 10:52 am
Just out of interest (as I’m looking at getting (or building) a new firewall), why do you need such an expensive one for your home network?
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:30 pm
TZ190 has WAN failover. Can also be used to enforce AntiVirus if desired.
July 3rd, 2009 at 8:11 am
16777215 is 2^24-1 – my guess is that an unsigned parameter was set to be negative, so it rolled over to the highest value it could possibly be. Presumably you can reset it.
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Interesting, because my sonicwall says the same on my hospital network. The exact same amount, which i googled and got this page. Just thought I’d share—did you get any info on this? If so, feel free to write me. Thanks!
March 16th, 2010 at 11:52 am
Odd, I’ve seen this twice in the past week on two different TZ190’s on my network. Prior to that, I’ve not seen it, and we’ve had these things for years. Perhaps it’s a bug in firmware update. Now I can quit looking for where it’s saving all that data. I figured it was a thumb drive the size of a Pontiac.