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monkey44
Nomad II
May 27, 2013

LT hogging my bandwidth

Still having a little trouble with the new Toshiba w/WDW8 ...

Using bandwidth very fast - probably because the auto-load auto update features of the news, sprots, etc.

SO, I shut off all the tiles, and went to "tell me", not "auto-update" on updates.

But, still 'spending' data allowance at .64mg since 20 hours. For years, I've been spending about 3mg-4mg per month. At this rate, I'll be spending almost 1mg a day, which is ridiculous. and will get expensive as we have only Verizon Hotspot.

We do no videos, minimal downloads, although we downloaded AVG once. But we use web for information and email. Very limited.

Anyone tell me how to shut off anything that's stealing my time? I don't care what updates, I'll figure it out, but have to shut this hogging off or I won't be able to figure out what to do before the allowance is gone.

What I'd like to do it shut every thing off accept the programs I use - the tiles confuse me, and if I could, I'd dump every one of them. I have shut the tiles off where I can find it. But am sure just deleting the tile/icon will not delete the app - will just delete the tile and probably leave the hogging at the trough.

Any advice?
  • SCClockDr's avatar
    SCClockDr
    Explorer
    May 27, 2013
    A laptop is considered a PC as far as Webpage designers are concerned. They will send the page complete with all the bells & whistles. Your browser may be set to pre-fetch page links as well.

    The laptop sees your hotspot as a WiFi connection so it will behave as if the sky is the limit bandwidth wise even though the WiFi connection is being supplied via a Mobile Data resource.

    A mobile device is seen as a device that should get content that is compressed and with some of the fluff stripped to conserve Mobile Data bandwidth, so Tablets/Smartphones have much smaller bandwidth appetites.

    You might consider fiddling with your browser's User Agent parameter to get the web to see it as a mobile device. (Back up the original first though.)
  • ploiselle's avatar
    ploiselle
    Explorer
    May 27, 2013
    I am wondering if you are using the correct units. 0.64 megabytes is nothing. 0.64 x 30 = 19 megabytes. We used between 8 and 9 gigabytes last February in Florida. (We are grandfathered with Verizon for unlimited data.) Most plans give you 2 gigabytes. (mg is milligrams used mostly for medication dosage in the US)

    If your leakage is 0.64 megabytes and you are using 3 to 4 Gigabytes a month, I wouldn't give it a second thought.

    If the leakage is 0.64 gigabytes, shut your computer off and see if the leakage continues, if it does call Verizon. It may be the Verizon hotspot unit itself.

    Paul
  • 1775's avatar
    1775
    Explorer
    May 27, 2013
    Windows 8 is designed to work "in the Cloud" and therefore is going to pull data on an ongoing basis. Microsoft never figured on things like broadband hotspots that have a maximum data limit or cost you $$$ or drop your connection speed if you pass the max for data. They pushed this out with no true understanding of the market other than to appeal to teens with Iphones to draw them to Win 8 phones (lots of luck, MS). Businesses want nothing to do with Win 8 and most serious pc users are not fooled by MS's hype.

    Simple solution - roll back to or install Windows 7 and you can then control what data the laptop accesses. The add ons to over-ride the Win 8 App tile screen may only mask it and the data will still be pulled by the app tiles under the add on.
  • ploiselle's avatar
    ploiselle
    Explorer
    May 28, 2013
    1775 wrote:
    Windows 8 is designed to work "in the Cloud" and therefore is going to pull data on an ongoing basis. Microsoft never figured on things like broadband hotspots that have a maximum data limit or cost you $$$ or drop your connection speed if you pass the max for data. They pushed this out with no true understanding of the market other than to appeal to teens with Iphones to draw them to Win 8 phones (lots of luck, MS). Businesses want nothing to do with Win 8 and most serious pc users are not fooled by MS's hype.

    Simple solution - roll back to or install Windows 7 and you can then control what data the laptop accesses. The add ons to over-ride the Win 8 App tile screen may only mask it and the data will still be pulled by the app tiles under the add on.
    I have been using Windows 8 on my new Asus Ultrabook for a few weeks now and love it. I will admit that I did and still do have to look up how to do some things i.e. change my default search engine to Google. Microsoft buried it down many levels.

    You can go to the Desktop and use Explorer 10 that looks and acts like you are using it on Windows 7. Go to Start from the menu on the right, click the desktop icon, open Explorer 10 from the taskbar. You can add you favorite shortcut icons to the desktop and it look and act just like Windows 7.

    I do not use the cloud.

    Once you get used to it, I think that you will like it too.

    Paul
  • monkey44's avatar
    monkey44
    Nomad II
    May 31, 2013
    ploiselle wrote:
    I am wondering if you are using the correct units. 0.64 megabytes is nothing. 0.64 x 30 = 19 megabytes. We used between 8 and 9 gigabytes last February in Florida. (We are grandfathered with Verizon for unlimited data.) Most plans give you 2 gigabytes. (mg is milligrams used mostly for medication dosage in the US)

    If your leakage is 0.64 megabytes and you are using 3 to 4 Gigabytes a month, I wouldn't give it a second thought.

    If the leakage is 0.64 gigabytes, shut your computer off and see if the leakage continues, if it does call Verizon. It may be the Verizon hotspot unit itself.

    Paul


    Thanks - YES ... Monkey44 tech-stupid math multiplied x100 instead of x10 on the mb = kb fraction. SO, was thinking 100MB = one Kb, so am really not using as much as I thought - thanks for the knock in the head! :)

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