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Data Usage weirdness...
- 8 years ago
First, welcome to the Community.
With new sign ups, the normal monthly data actually resets daily for the first twenty days. So, rather than it reducing day by day, what you've used and depleted from your monthly amount today will be replaced by tomorrow.
Hughesnet does this as a courtesy to allow new users to be able to update/upgrade their devices to current without it affecting what would normally be your monthly data alottment. Sometimes people have been offline for a while, and getting a few devices to current could wipe out someone's monthly data in a very short amount of time, so they do the initial 20 days of data resets so that doesn't happen.
So, nope, nothing's wrong. You're actually getting that much data right now. :)
Just keep an eye on it. And remember, after twenty days this will stop, then your data will have to last for the last ten or eleven days in your monthly data cycle, then will reset and become a normal monthly data reset.
We are new members, as well. Yesterday, with 26 days to go on my plan, I am down to 51%. Today, it's down to 45%, and we weren't even home for most of yesterday.
I live in the country and have very bad cell coverage, so I have wireless calling enabled, but again, I wasn't home for most of the day. My husband does not have this capability with his cell phone, and I got only one call last night.
I do have a wireless printer and both our laptops, but we haven't watched any videos at all, just browsing static pages.
I don't understand what is happenning to my data. I can't see where it's going, except the printer.
Printers can use a good deal of data with them "phoning home", but the only way to know what's using the data is to dig, so to speak.
The following thread may help. But, if you would like further help in figuring out what is using the data, you should start a new topic in the Tech Support section, which you can do by clicking on the blue "Start a topic" button on the upper right while within said section.
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