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1452092 2018-07-28 03:45:00 Hi team, haven't been around for a while. :D

I rarely use my cell phone as a hotspot but it is important when I do. The last two times I did this (a month apart in each case) the laptop gobbled up 1GB of data in a 20 minutes. No youtube, no large pics, no simple answer for me.

The laptop is configured to only freely download when not on a metered connection. Maybe I missed a setting. Or maybe a hotspot isn't known as metered.

I do normally have a lot of Firefox tabs open but they are usually up to date.

Any thoughts?

Cheers Winston
Winston001 (3612)
1452093 2018-07-30 02:28:00 You do need to set the hotspot as metered if that hasn't already been done. That metered connection is a per connection setting. wratterus (105)
1452094 2018-07-31 03:21:00 Cool and thanks. A good point and I will check that next time. Winston001 (3612)
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