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Post by Clinton Cool on Jul 16, 2017 7:32:46 GMT
I should start by saying that living in a cave would suit me better than dealing with all this modern techy gubbins. I'm a technological dinosaur.
My issue: I buy an EE 10GB sim each month. This should be plenty, I don't stream stuff or watch porn, or anything like that. I have 3 dongles. One of them is a bit dodgy, sometimes switches off for no apparent reason or causes the computer to crash. The other two work perfectly apart from one hitch: even if I don't connect to any website they use data at an alarming rate. I tested this one day, one of these used 2GB in one hour 50 minutes. The dodgy one, when it works, uses data at the normal rate.
How can this be, could the 2 dongles that work properly be infected or something? What should I do, bite the bullet and buy yet another dongle in the hope that this would work properly?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2017 7:44:18 GMT
I should start by saying that living in a cave would suit me better than dealing with all this modern techy gubbins. I'm a technological dinosaur. My issue: I buy an EE 10GB sim each month. This should be plenty, I don't stream stuff or watch porn, or anything like that. I have 3 dongles. One of them is a bit dodgy, sometimes switches off for no apparent reason or causes the computer to crash. The other two work perfectly apart from one hitch: even if I don't connect to any website they use data at an alarming rate. I tested this one day, one of these used 2GB in one hour 50 minutes. The dodgy one, when it works, uses data at the normal rate. How can this be, could the 2 dongles that work properly be infected or something? What should I do, bite the bullet and buy yet another dongle in the hope that this would work properly? To burn up data at that rate is about the same as watching a video (YouTube, film etc). The only other thing to watch is whether your device is using the mobile sim connection to do an update or backup of some kind. You can normally switch off updates and backups. I lost a lot of data once when Google Drive started to back up pictures and videos from my phone. Also apps like Spotify can randomly lose and reload off line tracks. You may need to stop some apps or programs running in the background to do this. Anyway, I bet it is the porn really....lol.  |
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Post by Clinton Cool on Jul 16, 2017 7:51:53 GMT
Cheers I have updates switched off as far as I know. If my settings aren't ideal, can't understand why the dodgy dongle doesn't also gobble up the data.
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Post by Stumpy on Jul 16, 2017 12:24:02 GMT
I should start by saying that living in a cave would suit me better than dealing with all this modern techy gubbins. I'm a technological dinosaur. My issue: I buy an EE 10GB sim each month. This should be plenty, I don't stream stuff or watch porn, or anything like that. I have 3 dongles. One of them is a bit dodgy, sometimes switches off for no apparent reason or causes the computer to crash. The other two work perfectly apart from one hitch: even if I don't connect to any website they use data at an alarming rate. I tested this one day, one of these used 2GB in one hour 50 minutes. The dodgy one, when it works, uses data at the normal rate. How can this be, could the 2 dongles that work properly be infected or something? What should I do, bite the bullet and buy yet another dongle in the hope that this would work properly? Sounds a tad excessive. Were you watching YouTube? As the BassPlayer has already stated. Make sure your computer isn't trying to download updates. Also check that any downloads you might have done, haven't introduced any spyware. As these programme's are constantly monitoring your usage and using up "Air Time". Go into Control Panel -Add/Remove programme and check there. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2017 12:33:01 GMT
I should start by saying that living in a cave would suit me better than dealing with all this modern techy gubbins. I'm a technological dinosaur. My issue: I buy an EE 10GB sim each month. This should be plenty, I don't stream stuff or watch porn, or anything like that. I have 3 dongles. One of them is a bit dodgy, sometimes switches off for no apparent reason or causes the computer to crash. The other two work perfectly apart from one hitch: even if I don't connect to any website they use data at an alarming rate. I tested this one day, one of these used 2GB in one hour 50 minutes. The dodgy one, when it works, uses data at the normal rate. How can this be, could the 2 dongles that work properly be infected or something? What should I do, bite the bullet and buy yet another dongle in the hope that this would work properly? Sounds a tad excessive. Were you watching YouTube? As the BassPlayer has already stated. Make sure your computer isn't trying to download updates. Also check that any downloads you might have done, haven't introduced any spyware. As these programme's are constantly monitoring your usage and using up "Air Time". Go into Control Panel -Add/Remove programme and check there. Spyware....CRT?  |
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Post by Stumpy on Jul 16, 2017 13:29:56 GMT
Sounds a tad excessive. Were you watching YouTube? As the BassPlayer has already stated. Make sure your computer isn't trying to download updates. Also check that any downloads you might have done, haven't introduced any spyware. As these programme's are constantly monitoring your usage and using up "Air Time". Go into Control Panel -Add/Remove programme and check there. Spyware....CRT? Wouldn't surprise me  |
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 16, 2017 14:47:03 GMT
The Witch bought a chip/connection for her iPad in Finland, 10 Gigabytes/month, 15 Euros. She has used under 2GB/month. No movies downloaded but lots of Instagram pics sent, e-mails and Internet (eg. looking for launderettes in Skipton).
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