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@Rob, the interesting thing in our case is that data loss is pretty steady and moderate for the first part of our data cycle, but then towards the middle and end of the cycle, it deletes much faster. It's so weird. ... View more

Yeah, data is tanking.  It's way too early in the month for this.  I'll be out of data by week's end if this keeps up at this rate.  :-(  For the record, aside from turning on my daughter's tablet and uploading an e-book, the kids' devices have all had their wifi disabled.     It would be nice if somebody from Hughesnet would be able to address why this is happening every single month.     ... View more

@GabeU  Unfortunately, I *think* the data slide has started, and it started early this month.  But I'm going to monitor.  Real quick because I'm way behind on school today (due to a certain puppy getting out of the house and leading us on a two hour chase).  This is where we are.  I just downloaded an e-book to my daughter's Kindle, something I normally do during off-peak hours but she needs it sooner rather than later.     Current stats as of 2:08pm on 3/12 (not including GW, I'll throw those up later). This was 72% literally two minutes ago. ... View more

And, tablets off at 7:30ish, Wifi on the laptop back on around 7:35pm.    Stats:  Data used during the hour and a half or so...80 MB.  Which is a lot higher than last time.  But, two kids were playing at the same time.     So weird.  And it's way too early in the month for a data slide.  At least, it's never started this early previously.     ... View more

Just keeping up on documenting data. Gabe, I haven't posted the specific website to that other forum just yet. I think I'll wait and see what the data does as the data cycle moves along. So, I will have two kids using Prodigy on their Galaxy Tabs beginning shortly after 6pm...probably 6:10pm.  Wifi to the laptop will be turned off and as such, the ONLY data being shown on HN between 6:10pm and when they finish, should be the one website.  Beginning data:   ... View more

@GabeUwrote: @Sweetpea3829   That's it?  11MB?     My God I wish I still had Gen4.  :p   Note to self...DO NOT, under any circumstance, "upgrade" to Gen5.     Side note...remember that email I sent to Cuomo regarding their "Broadband" for all?  I never heard anything at all.  I didn't expect a personal response, kwim?  But I did expect at least a canned autobot response.  Nada.  *shrug*  I guess us country folk don't really count for much for Big City man.     I don't regret leaving the congestion of RI/southeast MA.  Not even a little.  But I do miss the conveniences, lol.   ... View more

Isaac finished up about 1:30pm.  He was on Proxibid that entire time, but he also had a window up for Tractor House.  I think he was just perusing though.     Stats...   As you can see, not much data was used.  HN accounts for 11MB and GW accounts for 63 (with 61 being attributed to Chrome).     @GabeU, as you've mentioned, that's likely due to the Gen4 compression.  So we've pretty well established that.  Once the data slide kicks in, that compression seems to be gone.   ... View more

A bit of interesting data usage...or it will be.  The Mennonite neighbor is coming over in a few to watch an online auction.  It live updates constantly and should use a fair chunk of data.  Here are the stats since I pulled it up and got it running a couple of minutes ago.   ... View more

That's a good idea. But I can't help but wonder how many Mom's with kids who play an online math game, find themselves on the HN community, lol! I'll try and post later. We have swim practice tonight (and I need to get into the gym despite a wretched head cold). AND!!!! It's my favorite time of year! LITTLE LEAGUE STARTS! First practice for one club on Saturday and first practice for the other club on Sunday after church. And yes, that young man was lucky. Our house is set far enough back, and we have grape vines in front, so it's doubtful he would have hit the house. But we have a massive maple in the front, plus the pine, and the cherry stump. He landed in the best possible place. ... View more

Plugged back on (and Wifi off on the tablets) at 5:30pm.     Stats...Only 1 MB used for 40 minutes of online play?   GW showing data used during the off time. ... View more

One kid going on a tablet to play Prodigy, approx 4:50pm (and the second one will probably come on shortly after...he's in the shower).  Laptop is being disconnected from Wifi.  Only data source should be Prodigy from here until I reconnect.     Current HN and GW stats... ... View more

What's so weird, @GabeU is that it seems like that compression goes backwards during the latter part of the cycle.  I know we touched on this before and it doesn't appear that HN does it purposely, and we can't figure out the WHY.  Hopefully we can get some better data this cycle and get to the bottom of this.   On a completely unrelated note...we had some drama Monday night into Tuesday morning.  I had a midnight coughing fit (because...kids), and had run downstairs to grab a glass of water.  It was about 12:30AM...heard a bang, but thought it was just my husband rolling over in bed, or tossing the cat off the bed, lol.  About five minutes later, somebody was at our front door shining a light in!  I wasn't exactly dressed in a completely decent way, and it scared the heck out of me to see some man staring in my front door, lol.     Anyways, I ran upstairs and got Joe.  Come to find out, this poor kid had fallen asleep behind the wheel and plowed into our front yard.  He narrowly missed a cherry tree stump, and our telephone pole.  Knocked his tooth out, cut his hand.  All I could see was one of my own sons in ten years.  So we brought him in and took care of him until the police, fire and rescue arrived.  Poor kid.     Anyways, thought you'd get a kick out of it. Drama never ends around these parts!   ... View more

@GabeUwrote: @Sweetpea3829   Well, 12MB in two hours is great.  I'm not sure how that game works, data wise, but maybe it doesn't use much data to play.  You can always continue to monitor it in the same way (when you can) to see if that amount of data usage is typical for that game.  And, of course, it may vary, as shown when it used a little more data the last time you monitored that game.  If it varies wildly, that's another story, and then, of course, you can check the data usage on the tablets themselves to see if a large increase corresponds, if that were to happen.   Yeah, but remember, in the last post, there were two kids playing the game simultaneously for the entire time.  In this case, there were two kids playing for only a part of that time period.     I'm going to keep an eye on that particular stat, because it's pretty much the only website that I can isolate that way, lol.  I'm curious how much data it will use after "the slide" begins.     So far this month, I've been on pretty regularly and data usage on GW reflects that well enough.  But the data usage on Hughes does not.     P.S. Gabe, thanks so much for sticking in here with me, lol.  This thread has been running for a couple of months now and you continue to check in and help.  I really appreciate that.     All data from the laptop so far this month. Chrome so far this month. All data according to HN so far this month (this would also include the data that GW does not account for, from the tablets). ... View more

A second kiddo popped onto the second tablet at approx 3:15.  There were two players until I think 4pm, and then just one until now, about 4:50pm.     Again, the ONLY data represented here should be the data that was used while they were playing Prodigy.  The tablets should have used no other data, as they cannot update, and only the one browser window was open on each of them.     So here are the stats.  Prodigy only used 12MB of data during that nearly 2 hour window.  That seems way too low.   This shows GW which indicates just the 1.2MB of data from the laptop. ... View more

Putting a kid on the tablet to play Prodigy.  Just one for right now.  Time is 2:58 (probably 3pm when they start).  Data up to this point is attached.  I'm turning the Wifi off for the laptop so the only thing using data will be the Prodigy game on the tablet.     ... View more

Also, just a reminder...the storage space on these tablets is full. So they cannot automatically update. Every time they're turned on, they remind me that there's 40+ pending updates, and a software update which says it's 1154.98 MB (!!!). They haven't updated in over a year. Possibly two, lol! ... View more

Yeah, they run Android. One of the tablets (the "White Tablet") shows 135MB from Feb 3 - March 3, with 64.30 of those being from Chrome. But it doesn't break that down further. The rest of the usage is incidental stuff from Google Play (33.92MB), Google Services (19.39MB), Galaxy Apps (11.63), etc. The "Black Tablet" shows total 157MB from 2/3-3/3 with 61.98 attributed to Chrome, 57.98 to Google Play (hmmm...interesting that this would be so much higher on this tablet vs the other), and so on. ... View more

Yeah, that's quite the hike! Probably not ideal at all. We have two wells, one is a dug well, and the other was recently drilled. The dug well, we want to get an operational hand pump so it can be used in emergencies, and also for watering the chickens, ducks and bottle calves our kids wean. But, we haven't found a good (and affordable) hand pump. They're usually decorative, or not the right kind of metal. Funny enough, when Joe and I moved here from RI, it was the first time either of us had been on a well. We didn't know, for example, that you can't put a sprinkler on a well for long periods of time. And we were definitely not prepared for the water quality changes. That said, it's nice to not have a water bill. Now, Gabe, I have to say, props to you for living across from your folks. Mine would drive me up a wall. We live 6-7 hours from all of our family and it has its downsides, but the peace is invaluable. Maybe because my folks are divorced and remarried. That brings much drama. Anyways, we are way off topic (I don't mind, btw). So to bring this back on topic...do you think the data stats I posted seem low? Referring to the data used during an hour and a half of browser usage for a math game. Doesn't it seem like more data than that should have been used? ... View more

@GabeU   We took a walloping with snow.  Hard to tell exactly how much, but well over a foot of heavy, wet stuff.  I love it though.  We never did lose power here, though it flickered a time or two.  How did your parents' barn fare?  Sucks that you guys lost power for so long.  I don't know if you have kids or not but, man...we lost power last summer for two days and it was THE WORST.  "Can I flush the toilet?"  No.  "What if I just have pee, can I flush it then?"  No.  "Can we use the hose?"  No.  "Can I get some milk out of the fridge?"  No.     Oy!     Anyways, in the picture with the sliders set, that is the time period where my kids were on the Prodigy game and the Prodigy website should have been the ONLY activity, data-wise, during that time period.  I disconnected the laptop's WiFi so it was not connecting, and that's evident in the GW graph.     The usage tool I was referencing was the one in the picture I posted.  When they started playing Prodigy, at 7:45ish, up until that point, HNs usage tool shows 184MB.  At the end of the hour and a half of Prodigy use, only 19MB had been used (though it may have been slightly higher, as the Usage tool bumped from the 184 to 193MB in the time it took me to post that comment.  So between 19 and 28 MB of data were used between two tablets over a period of an hour and a half.     I'll try and monitor next time they play, so I can track how much data that website is using.  Then we can compare at the end of the month.   ... View more

So just to recap...that's two kids simultaneously playing on WiFi connected tablets, on a browser-based math game that would seem to use a good amount of data, given the graphics, etc.  Only 19 MB were used during that time period, according to Hughes.  I should mention, immediately after I posted the last comment, I refreshed the usage tool and it showed 193MB used...maybe because of a lag?     I want to remember these stats for when the data slide begins later in the month.  We can run this again and see how the usage compares.   ... View more

Ok, kids got off of Prodigy about five minutes ago.  Both tablets are now disconnected from WiFi, and the laptop is back on.     Current stats:  Glasswire sliders set to about 7:45 to 9:15 or so. ... View more