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Sunday, October 5th, 2025

Sudden Data Usage Spike at Oct

Hello,

My average data usage for every month is around 200GB to 300GB. However, I got warning message for my October data usage after 3 days of October 1st. The data usage shows around 1TB today which is completely not make sense. I did not change any settings or I did not have any guest at Oct. Could you check what happen on my internet ?

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300 Messages

15 days ago

Hello @user_nomc03 I understand how this can be confusing, and I will be happy to help you with your issue. To begin, do you mind sending me the name and address of the account in question in a direct message? 

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Visitor

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5 Messages

Here is screen shot from email notification and also screen shot for my internet usage history. Could you help to find a what was the root cause and how we can resolve this ?

Official Employee

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300 Messages

There is a reason your internet has increased as much as it has. I can not see your October statements at the moment or November. I won’t be able to see everything until the month has complete. 

Visitor

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5 Messages

It is not make sense to me. I am seeing all the data usage even in Oct. If you are able to see data usage after Oct, We couldn't resolve this issue and Xfinity will charge more to my bill.

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We have sent a reply to you in your Direct Messages. If you have data usage concerns, you can also contact our Customer Security Assurance (CSA) team by calling 1-800-XFINITY where a representative will assist in transferring you to that department. If you would like us to review the Xfinity account and services further, please do not hesitate to reply to our last direct message @user_nomc03

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Regular Visitor

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6 Messages

8 days ago

Seems like this is either an error on Xfinity's metering or an intentional way for them to push people to buy their "Unlimited" plan. They are currently doing the same thing to me and these forums seem to be full of others experiencing the same thing.

Visitor

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@chchcheddar​ Xfinity service team actually asked me to upgrade to unlimited data plan and this is the only solution at this moment. I have been tried to find reasonable answer but looks Xfinity team does not want to provide reasonable answer. I am ending relationship with Xfinity after 7 years. ;-)

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chchcheddar, Hi there! Thanks for taking the time to reach out. I can understand the data usage concern as someone who is always using data on my devices. This is definitely not how we want you to feel with being pushed to the Unlimited Plan. You've reached the right team of experts to help turn this around over social media. We can help. Are you seeing an error message or an error in the usage results? 

 

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Visitor

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2 Messages

4 days ago

I have the same EXACT SITUATION happening to me in this month of October 2025.  I was on the phone with 5 different representatives trying to troubleshoot this issue today but got nowhere.  I was able to get my per day usage data, and it is apparent that our alleged usage spiked starting Oct 1st, 2025 without me and my family doing anything different compared to the previous months in terms of increase in usage or number of devices.  I was transferred back and forth between the Tech Service to Disconnection to Tech Service to CSA then back the Tech departments, but NO ONE could help us figure out the cause!  I was only able to get the per-day usage data from speaking to the various departments, which still did not confirm with any consumption that I suspect might have driven up the usage.  The only thing consistent was that our usage spiked started right on October 1st, 2025 and EVERY REPRESENTATIVE we spoke to immediately upsell us to switch to the Unlimited Data Plan!  Now I'm searching online to see that many of us are/have been victims of this Xfinitly Data Usage Spike case.  Sounds like a COMMERCIAL LITIGATION for UNFAIR BUSINESS PRACTICE if you ask me!

Visitor

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5 Messages

Finally, I switched to other internet provider and their tool shows me how much data each device consume in real time. This is helping me a lot to understand how much data my family are using. I provided my honest feedback to xfinity team when i cancelled service a week ago. 

Visitor

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@user_nomc03​ May I ask which internet provider you switched to have tool showing how much data each device consume?  I'd be interested in going with them so I get a clear picture of our data usage we are getting charged for.

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