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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.
Even though your data resets during the first twenty days, your usage history should still reflect what you have used each day.
You can also just wait until the relaxed bandwidth period is over to find out what you are using. If you realize that it's not enough data you always have the option of upgrading your plan. There isn't a time limit for that. With regard to finding that the data plan you have is larger than you need, I believe you are limited to downgrading once per year, but I don't know how it affects discounts, and I'm not positive about once per year limit, either.
Also, though I don't know what you have for devices, if you use Windows based computers, you can install Glasswire, which is free. It monitors the data usage of the computer it's installed on, and also tells you just what's using it, as in programs and apps. This can come in handy if you are using a lot of data, but don't know why.
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