How do I track my data usage?
I have AT&T uverse internet service. My box thingy is a 503INV black box with green lights.. as you can see I'm a real tech savy grandma.. I use my laptop with wi-fi. I want to know how much "d...
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tenbear wrote:
Your "box thingy" 503INV is a wireless router. It provides the WiFi signal for the house.
Is your laptop Windows or Mac? If Windows, what version of Windows do you use?
The "box thingy" is a lot more than a wireless router. Uverse calls it a residential gateway. It connects to the AT&T phones lines coming into the house. It does have a wireless router built in, an ethernet router and telephone jacks if you have a VoIP phone. TV set top boxes connect to it via ethernet. Some gateways, like ours, also have coax connections for the set top boxes. You can use either ethernet or coax for the set top boxes depending on what wiring is available.
rvgrammady wrote:
Hey folks... I'm not talking cell phones or jetpacks. I'm talking uverse at home and I take my box thingy with me and I can use it when I get wifi at a campgound. This unit has nothing to do with my cell phone plan. I'm sorry if I missled anyone.
Don't think you can take your box thingy (5031NV) with you. Well you can but it will be about as useful as a brick for getting on the internet. You need a cellphone or wifi hotspot device and data plan from a wireless carrier. We use our cell phones to create a hotspot. Only time we've exceeded our data limit was when my wife watched multiple tv shows online. We each have 2.5gb so we only exceeded the limit on one phone. Normally we only use a few hundred megabytes each.
Don't know if that box will track/provide your data usage. Our gateway does, under Statistics, but it's a different model. You can connect to the box thingy from your PC. Type 192.168.1.254 into the address bar of your browser, hopefully that is the IP address the 5031NV uses. The access code for the box should be on label on the side of the box, may not need it to just view statistics.
