Nvidia shield consumes 155GB in less than 21 hours

by m1ch41

We normally watch Stan (Aussie streaming service) on our Nvidia Shield TV. Yesterday evening, as usually, we watched a couple of episodes of our favourite show and then we turned the Nvidia Shield TV off. I work from home so I haven't noticed anything unusual about the device today. My TV was off for the entire day. Around 4 pm I went for a jog and came back home around 5:40 pm. When I walked in I found the TV on - it must have been triggered by the Nvidia Shield TV, but how? The Stan app was on but nothing was playing. Soon after I have received a message from Optus (mobile operator) that I used up 85% of my mobile home broadband internet allowance (we are on a 500 GB Optus 4G home broadband). I was shocked as we normally finish every month at around 350 Gb max. I immediately logged into my Asus router to check what app/device used up all this precious data. The statistics section revealed a whopping 155 GB of data downloaded through the Nvidia Shield TV since 8 pm last night. The app responsible for this huge data usage is called Akamai.net I googled this immediately and I found out that Stan uses Akamai. Therefore I am suspecting that the Stan app has malfunctionedv and somehow it streamed and downloaded over 155 GB within less than 24 hours (roughly 7 GB per hour) despite no movies/shows played. According to Stan's website, streaming UHD equals to roughly 7GB per hour. The thing is we don't even have an UHD TV. Not only I run out of my monthly internet allowance but I am worried if I should continue on using the app on the device or just cancel the service as I would not like this to happen again. Did anyone ever experienced similar?

crazy_goat

Akamai is a CDN - which is likely to be the video content traversing their infrastructure. It would appear your Stan app continued to Stream content. If the shield was awake while the TV was in standby, this would explain the data usage

hotntastychitlin

Akamai is a distributed content provider on the internet, maybe it was updates? I never heard of 155 gigs of updates though.

MattSpew

Reboot your Shield; clearly just a glitch with Stan.

I always exit Stan, and any other app, when I'm done and force the Shield into standby.

FYI; you don't need a UHD tv, or even the Shield set to UHD, for it to play UHD content. The YouTube app is too dumb to detect you have a 1080p TV and that the Shield is set to 1080p. It will play 4k when set to auto wasting your bandwidth all day long.

tmihai20

Try contacting the creators of the app. Do you have any children or someone staying in the house? Are you sure the data was actually downloaded? Check with the provider. Ultimately, you can just unplug Nvidia Shield TV for now.

VaderDon

You may if just so solved the same problem ive had before. I had the same setup and couldn't work out where all my data was going I got a $380 excess data charge one month from Optus and $260 the next. The shield was the only thing in the house that would of been connected.

Nehemoth

Maybe that app uses a new feature which downloads what you are going to watch next.

I remember having read something about Amazon Prime video implemented like this like 2 years ago or so.