I’ve been slacking off a lot on updating my websites this past week because I am trying to avoid having to pay another $15 to my ISP for another 2GB of bandwidth. I have an allowed 10GB of bandwidth with my current account, and I usually only use an average of 3.5 GB per month, however, this month my bandwidth use is up to 9.65 GB so far. I figured out what happened, but it does not do me any good.
I had unlocked my wireless router for my sister to use while she was here a lot of the time back in September, and then never got around to relocking it because she was coming by off and on. Apparently this month the neighbors somewhere nearby, or a kid on the back road, saw an open wireless connection and tapped into it. I have my wireless security locked once again, but it was a nasty surprise to find out halfway through the month that I only had a half a gigabyte to get through the rest of the month when I usually average a bit over a gigabyte in that time frame. I think I’ll make it, but I can’t watch YouTube or upload pictures to my blogs or all the other things I am so used to being able to get done in the month. Shoot, even when I watch movies online and a few TV shows online I never went over 5 GB in a month. This is just downright annoying.
