LG WebOS TV Hogging my all my bandwidth

[superleccy]

Hi there

I've had my LG WebOS SmartTV for a couple of months, but in the past week or so I've noticed it's really started eating up all my home's Internet bandwidth, even when I'm just watching FreeSat TV and not running any apps.  It's connected to my router using wired ethernet, so it's not a WiFi problem.

I can only assume that one the apps I've installed is suddenly decided to download a ton of data in the background.  But which one?

The only solution I can think of is to install my apps one-by-one until my bandwidth issue improves.  And that's what I'll do.

But I found this forum, and thought I'd ask you good people if any of you had had a similar experience.

Here's the apps I've got installed:

• BritBox
• BBC iPlayer
• Spotify
• YouTube
• Amazon Prime Video
• NowTV
• AppleTV

Thanks in advance for any tips

SL

[exnor]

It might be useful to use a Pi-Hole to determine what type of DNS queries the tv is doing. 

[superleccy]

5 minutes ago, exnor said:

It might be useful to use a Pi-Hole to determine what type of DNS queries the tv is doing. 

I have no idea what Pi-Hole is but I'm off to ask my friend Google.  Thank you so much.

[exnor]

16 hours ago, superleccy said:

I have no idea what Pi-Hole is but I'm off to ask my friend Google.  Thank you so much.

It is a DNS sinkhole but its usefull to determine what domains the tv is trying to access.

Better alternative would be using software like WireSharck or if you Router/Gateway having IP monitoring tools.

[superleccy]

Thanks, really helpful.  I'm off to educate myself a bit!