unexplaind intenet usage by my apple tv

you know other people have had this problem? can't say i've seen this specific issue discussed before.

all i can say is that the appletv does not use any internet bandwidth whilst idle, are you sure you are not confusing local network traffic with internet traffic ?

I assume you haven't hacked the AppleTV with non standard apps that might be phoning home.

Do you have an AppleTV 1 or 2 (silver vs black) ?

If it's ATV1 then do you actually mean it's using local network bandwidth not the internet per se? AppleTV 1's automatically sync content to their hard drives from iTunes across the local network unless you've configures them differently.

you know i have noticed that when i bought apple tv it has my internet usage has gon thrugh the roof... i have the apple tv 2 and the only reason it is a concern is because i have a cap on how much internet bandwith i use a month... in feburary i used 30 GB and this month i have used over 125GB

Well streaming HD content does take a lot of bandwidth so you have to be careful. To put into perspective, the average HD movie can be 3.5-4GB

That being said some of these caps put into place are pretty outrageous

How many HD movies did you rent, were you using lots of Netflix etc?

Did you restart/rewatch movie rentals or watch them through - rewatching/restarting can require the whole HD even if the rental/view period has not expired - basically other simple actions like playing local itunes content or watching movie trailers can flush the reneted stream from memory - one user reported a 30GB usage one weekend just to watch a single movie through!

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For the most part it has remained idle or air played from my laptop, I am approaching a new billing cycle, I have unpluged it and we will see just how much change their is

Then it shouldn't be using up bandwidth as airplay is off the local network. Is your network secure?

I have exactly the same problem. Just bought and installed Apple TV 2. Started using it ONLY TO STREAM MUSIC FROM MY LAPTOP TO MY HOME THEATER SYSTEM and my internet usage has suddenly skyrocketed (here there is a ridiculous cap of 4 Gb per month!!!).

Never streamed internet content (Youtube or other).

I have secured the network with password.

So APPLE TV IS OBVIOUSLY USING BANDWIDTH.

What am I doing wrong? Anybody that can help fix the problem, or is Apple TV totally useless???

Hi. I was wondering if there was a fix to this problem? I am not very computer savvy but after many wasted hours on the phone to our ISP we now have a brand new modem. We have a small download limit (4gb) and everytime I use AirPlay it chews up our Internet download. The first trial on the new modem the other day used over 800mb with AirPlay running most of the afternoon and no other devices switched on that are capable of connecting to the Internet. We haven't used apple tv for any other reason than to play stored music off my iPhone. Can some one help please. I am desperate to get this sorted. Thanks in advance.

If you're only streaming local music (and not using a music/radio app, not using iTunes Match) then it shouldn't be using any data. Make sure your phone doesn't have anything running that may be accessing the network.

It still eats the bandwidth, I don't know how or why and AirPlay may be wha does it, but I would play Netflix off of my computer and stay under my cap, then we got apple tv and usage went through the roof, we stopped useing Netflix and still had a problem staying under the cap, then we disconnected apple tv and everything was hunky dory again .. We now switched to having no cap, but don't have near the bandwidth that we had .. So yes the apple tv does use more bandwidth for some reason, and no I can't fix it, so we adapted ..

No it doesn't. I stream music all the time using ATV, and it doesn't eat more bandwidth. It's using the local network

Then why is it that as soon as I plug in apple tv my usage goes up?

You would have to look at your network. I keep a very close eye on bandwidth as well because of a cap and the only time it goes up is when I actually access the internet. Days when I mainly stream using home-sharing or off iPhone data is almost non-exisistent. Local streaming will use bandwidth over the LAN, and that doesn't affect the cap.

If you received a warning or charge for going over then talk to your ISP.