Help please
Hopefully the community has answers, nobody else does. I live in a remote area. The only option I have is satellite internet. No dsl available. Hughesnet started out decent, but I'm paying for a high...
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Wow! Thank you for this info! I'm not sure the Verizon network extender is the same thing hughesnet offers. If it is and hughesnets doesn't use data, that's definitely the better option. Is there a way to see how much data each device is using? We both have cell phones, my daughter has a laptop. One robot vacuum on wifi. One blow up hot tub on wifi. The big thing is the Verizon network extender. I can actually get 4g and not have to use wifi when the network extender is hooked up. Without it, I have zero bars of anything and can't even place a phone call. We don't watch movies or Netflix because it buffers constantly. The last movie I watched took about 5 hrs to get through. Really just surging web, shopping, snapchat for my daughter. Snapchat video calls too
Are you using the Verizon network extender for a Verizon account or for the HughesNet account? Since you say you get 4G and don't have to use wifi when you use the network extender, it sounds to me you're using it for Verizon data, not HughesNet data, but I may be misunderstanding you.
I don't use Snapchat, but I would imagine that it could use a lot of data, especially the video calls. Someone else may know more about this.
The robot vacuum and the hot tub likely use data, though I'm not sure how much they would use.
To see what your connected devices are and how much data they are using, you can use the community's pages:
At the top of the page, click on Usage. Then click on Usage Details. When you get to the usage details page, click on Usage again and then click on Connected Devices. Then scroll to the section titled All Device Usage Last 24 Hours.
