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Saturday, August 12th, 2017 8:43 PM

Hot spot use

I always roll over 6 or 7 GB of data per month and my plan is for 15. If I use the hot spot function will it use a lot of my data?

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7 years ago

It can but depends on what devices are using the hotspot and what they are doing. I run an iPad on my hotspot often, it does not use much data but I don't stream any video.

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7 years ago

@Gjohns1 When hotspotting my iPad or MacBook it's smart enough to realize it's a cellular connection and doesn't do a lot of WiFi stuff in the background. (It would avoid syncing photos and updating apps and other things like that, when I connect to a separate hotspot device, it just thinks it's on WiFi and does all those things which eats more data and power).

 

If I'm not doing music or video or animated GIFs (or downloading large things), 5GB can last a long time. Now if the computer decided to run a bunch of updates in the background, then you could download several GB very quickly.

 

I believe you can set some setting on windows machines to tell it to go to some kind of low data mode...

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