Another Victim of DATA Usage SCAM

This happened to me too. I've had the same plan, Internet only, for years and have never gone over. I work from home downloading large files all day, as well as constantly stream music and TV most of the day. I rarely use more than 30GB a day and then for the past week I've seen upwards of 148 GB per day, with a low of 50. I scoured my network for something problematic but could not find anything. All of my devices showed 1-3GB usages per day and comes nowhere near what Cox reported I used. Ended up adding on unlimited data for this month and voila the next day I only used 15GB. MMMMK.

I have a router that logs my internet traffic and I can confirm at least for me that it's accurate. I have months I've used nearly 15 TB of traffic (yes I pay for unlimited data) and months that I use around 800 GB of data, and it seems to align with my Linux based router using vnstat.

Just had the same thing happen to me.  We signed up for Cox on the 23rd and didn’t even plug in our router until the 29th and now today, the 10th, it’s saying that we’ve already used 85% of our data. We did download a few new games on our PlayStation 4, which according to Cox actually takes up a lot of your data usage, but between downloading video games and just streaming shows on Netflix and Hulu that should not have already used up almost a terabyte of data in less than 2 weeks.  This is my first time having Cox and I didn’t even know that limited Wi-Fi was a thing.  Our only option to not have to worry about overages was to get the unlimited plan so now we are paying $50 more a month so $130 for Wi-Fi; that’s very steep. 

This happened to me on January 19th, I average around 20 to 35 GB daily but on that day 150 GB, there is no way.

On a Sunday at that, we were barely home.

I would have to stream 33   4K movies, ridiculous. 

I had this happen to me in January.  It's just my son in  I at home, and we work different schedules, so it's rare that we are both home at the same time.  The most I use it for is social network and gaming on my phone.  My son will stream YouTube a couple of hrs a night after he gets home from work.  But he works second shift, so not hours and hours.  We have one day that 300 gb was used.  In the January billing cycle it says we used over 1300 gb for the month.  We usually average 300-400.  All they would tell me is that their equipment is not wrong.

Same here. Last billing cycle (data) Dec 24 - Jan 23 (2019) my data spiked from a normal 300 GB per month to 895 GB. I have a TP-Link modem and router, this is the same set-up for the past few years. My router does not offer bandwidth usage logging. No new hardware has been added for at least the last 6 months. Just yesterday alone I used 100 GB.

Devices: (3) Xbox One, (2) Google Mini, (1) Google Home Hub, (2) Chromecast, up to (4) phones depending on when my children are here, and (4) smart bulbs (TP-Link LB100). These are the same devices I have had for months. 

We are normally under 750gb per month and sometimes less.  We are now over 895GB  with 10 days left in the mont and an e-mail notice to upgraded our data plan.  They only let you look at the last 3 months of Data Usage,  I call BS on this and only let you see one month of data usage per day from the past...Something smells like a bad can of Tuna at COX. 

I'm wonder about the people that just got brand new 4K TVs for Christmas etc.   

Data Usage extortion

"Thank you for being a valued Cox High Speed Internet customer.

As of January 15, 2020 your household has used 85% of your data plan for the current period, which ends on January 25, 2020.  Your data plan includes  1024 GB  per usage period which includes your base data plan and any additional data plans you have purchased.

If you exceed your data plan, we will automatically provide you additional blocks of 50 Gigabytes (GB) of data for $10 each, as needed. There will be no change to the speed or quality of your service if you exceed your data plan. "

Happening to me too. Massive data use only on days no one is home. May be time for a class action.

Im getting a credit for mine for the second time, it is ridiculous. I have to talk to cox almost every month cause they can't keep their stuff in line.