Ridiculous Internet Usage Claim

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I logged into my Telus internet account today and discovered that the website currently thinks I used 1508 GB this month, which as you can see from the chart below is quite out of whack with what I have historically been using. When I checked the usage late last week, it was at around 225GB. The number I see today is cartoonishly absurd, and the reason is that it is probably impossible for me to have downloaded that much data in such a short amount of time since I only get a speed of 30 Mbps. At the very least, it would have made the connection unusable and it would have been impossible not to notice.

There is no malware on my computer and my wifi is secure. I have not been streaming, file sharing, gaming or anything like that. Windows 10 claims I have only used about 110GB of data in the last 30 days, although that figure is probably somewhat suspect as well. Since I have not received any warning emails I strongly suspect this figure is, to say the least, inaccurate. The usage number given on the website is probably not correct a lot of the time, but this is a little over the top.
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