Internet Hotspot
If you have a Internet Hotspot if you do not turn off all automatic updates and turn off online backup services you can use huge amounts of data without knowing it. I will start updates/bakups when I ...
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If I'm on a public Wi-Fi, I like being on as short a time period as possible, even with the "no incoming traffic" checked on the firewall. Once I'm done, I disconnect.
For Windows updates, I've found it is faster to run "WSUS Offline", which does its business extremely quickly, and you can copy the updates to a USB flash drive and update other Windows boxes without needing to burn up one's bandwidth allotment.
I think there is a utility available for the Mac where you can throttle programs like mail.app so they only use a certain amount of bandwidth at most. I think Little Snitch might offer that functionality.
For Windows updates, I've found it is faster to run "WSUS Offline", which does its business extremely quickly, and you can copy the updates to a USB flash drive and update other Windows boxes without needing to burn up one's bandwidth allotment.
I think there is a utility available for the Mac where you can throttle programs like mail.app so they only use a certain amount of bandwidth at most. I think Little Snitch might offer that functionality.
