hi- Brand new to this community and brand new to hughesnet, so I had a few questions about data usage. I live way out in the boondocks, and my previous internet access involved a Sprint aircard that was lucky to get one bar, which was seldom enough to actually connect me to the internet, so compared to that, this is great. It's certainly not as fast as my kid's FIOS in the city, but at least it works. Anyway, my computer hadn't been updated in forever, so a few days after I got hughesnet set up, I plugged the computer into the supplied modem/router (or whatever you call it) using a CAT-5 cable and started the updates. It took about an hour, and the total updates, according to the computer, were about 900MB. So, a few days later, my usage meter STILL says I've used 0.0GB of data and I'm at 100%. To try to test it, I downloaded a movie from HBOMAX on my ipad this morning during bonus time. Pretty much as soon as the download ended, my bonus time data dropped 1.5GB and went to 97% available. So, I'm confused. Why didn't my updates to my computer count yesterday during prime time? The only difference appears to be that my computer is plugged into the router and my ipad is on wifi. Thanks for explaining to an old trucker. Joe
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