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Well yeah. That was my plan for the Win 10 laptop, but it wouldn't let me do an acceptable dual boot with linux. Can't remember what the deal-breaker problem was, but it became too much of a hassle so I said screw it. ... View more

"It has nothing to do with your hypothesis.  Your comment was assuredly removed for being offensive:  i.e. your choice of metaphor.  There's no need for it.  This is a support forum and public.  Please keep that in mind."   I guess people can be offended at anything, but that's really silly to be offended by the metaphor I used. It described well the feeling I have when I am unable to control my data flow. lol   ... View more

" Comments are removed when they violate community guidelines and/or community terms of service. This is a privately owned site, and the moderators have the legal right to moderate content, up to and including its removal."   Yeah I get that, but there was nothing offensive in the post. All I did was speculate as to what was causing the problem. That it was removed is very sus ... View more

"LOL, or maybe it means they are tired of trying to help you when you won't cooperate. They can't say that because they are attached to Hughes, but I am not. I am just a regular member like you. Windows 7 is not even supported by Microsoft, no updates or virus protection. You could have a virus or malware using your data."    I've done everything that's been asked. I installed Glasswire yesterday. That should have been obvious from my previous comment.   Blaming this on a virus is just a lame excuse and a distraction. Everything worked fine until I upgraded. It's not credible that I suddenly got a virus. ... View more

That's a shame, a mod deleted my comment. Must mean my hypothesis is correct. ... View more

I've done Windows since 3.1 and I'm over it. I actually bought a laptop with 10 on it and took it back because it pissed me off so bad. I'll stick with 7, or go linux. ... View more

Delivery Optimization must be Win 10. I use Win 7 ... View more

I don't use Syncing or Delivery Optimization that I am aware of ... View more

I'm getting the feeling that Hughes really doesn't want customers knowing how much data they're really using because trying to pin that down with only a 100 MB resolution on the usage meter is pretty worthless. If the meter says 77% of 10 GB I can't tell if that means I've used 2300 MB or 2399MB. That's 100 MB of data, which is about half of what I used to use in one day under Gen 3. Big fuzzy area that keeps you from really knowing what you've used.. The Gen 3 usage meter had 1 MB resolution, so it was pretty useful.. I guess it's going to boil down to how well I can surf when my 10 MB runs out, which at this pace will be in about 10 days shy of a month because there's no way I can control how much it uses to keep from going over limit, even being as conservative and careful as I am. ... View more

I use Adblock, so I basically don't know what an ad looks like. Also, NoScript to minimize that kind of traffic. Also Ghostery to block other stuff. ... View more

So how long do I run Glasswire? It obviously can't look back in time. ... View more

So basically you are admitting that Gen 5 does work differently than Gen 3 because something using data in my system was not an issue at all under Gen 3. Never. Now apparently it is. That's something Hughes is doing, not me. ... View more

btw it sucks if Hughes is charging for re-transmissions. It's their equipment and if it's not working right, they should flag it and not charge customers for it. ... View more

If Gen 3 and Gen 5 work the same then it must be defective equipment or poorly aligned satellite dish or something hardware related. I haven't changed anything since Gen 3 and then I rarely used more than 250 MB per day. I monitored it closely. Based on this below, I request that a mod run remote diagnostics >Data used in the re-transmission of your data due to failing equipment< For this we need to start a topic and tag one of the Mods and ask that they run remote diagnostics on your system. It is possible for data that you have sent or requested to have to be retransmitted thereby using excess data. This can be due to failing modem/transmitter or poor aim among other things. ... View more

Remy, there's no way I've used 2.3 GB in 5 days. I haven't changed a thing since Gen 3, and under Gen 3 in 5 days I would have used about 1.2 GB. (about 250 MB/day). You can check my 8-9 year history to verify that is correct. I haven't changed my habits at all. In fact I am more cautious, almost paranoid, since I started noticing that more data was being consumed in the last 10 days of my first month of Gen 5 (first 20 days no data was charged). I check the meter constantly and avoid videos as much as possible. If more data is being consumed it's because of Hughes, not me. ... View more

Thanks for tagging those guys. Catch up I can understand, but I normally used 100-250 MB per day under Gen 3 and rarely exceeded 400 MB. I'm 5 days into my 2nd month of a Gen 5 upgrade, but I haven't changed how I use the internet at all. I'm very disciplined to keep it around 100-250 MB. But so far I'm at 77% (23 GB) after only 5 days. Haven't changed a thing from Gen 3 days.. ... View more

WIFI is turned off ... View more