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by vasdae 959 days ago
The site has always been very reliable for me, so I have bad news for you.
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So.... my wife is downloading "Weapons of Ass Destruction" 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7... and House Of Ass 8?
better than her jumping straight to 8 and being completely lost on the plot
Damn, she's a keeper
Or maybe your wifi is not as private as you think it is.
That was my initial thinking, but there are no unknown devices connected to the router. What I suspect has happened is that I've been given a new IP some time within the last few days and the data on the site isn't exactly live.

There might also be something in how the data is collected and how Bittorrent works, so some else had this IP a few days back and there are still Bittorrent clients that are trying to connect and that might be what the site is seeing.

Bittorrent might also be much more popular than I expected, because almost every IP around mine seems to be torrenting something. But I think it's due to short leases on IPs because it seems unlikely to me that 8 out 10 is using Bittorrent.

I think I need to start investigating what devices are connecting to my router since mine doesn't look accurate either.

Hopefully this is just false data and not my neighbours since I don't particularly want to know what porn they're downloading.

No, it's actually very unreliable. I haven't used BT in ages and yet it shows I've been downloading in the last 2 weeks.