In terms of data usage, is it equal to use my phone as a hot spot to using a jetpack mifi?

In terms of data usage, is it equal to use my phone as a hot spot as the jetpack mifi?

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  • Turn data usage over 3G off, only use on WiFi?

    Hi,
    I want to buy an iPhone here in Japan, where it's available with a Softbank White Plan, which I'm already subscribed to. The plan does not include any data transfer though, so I'd have to pay for every single byte I send and receive. For this reason I want to know if it's possible to turn off any kind of data usage on the iPhone, unless it's connected to a WiFi network. I know this is slightly beside the point of the iPhone, but would be perfectly acceptable for me, as I'm usually around some hotspot or another.
    Chrs,
    Dav

    Airplane Mode turns off all data and cell usage, but Wi-Fi can still be used while this is on. The only problem is, cell service (calling) cannot be used while this is on. You can also turn off 3G, but that still leaves data transfer over anything else on the cellular network on (in the US, it's called EDGE). Bit of a problem, because you would either have to pay for the data usage if Airplane Mode is off, or not receive calls when Airplane Mode is on. This kind of defeats the purpose of the iPhone, unless you can get an unlimited data plan.

  • My iphone and desktop have the same ip address, new ipad comes up different. Ipad data usage very high. All use the same Linksys router

    My  two iPhone4, Vista PC desktop, Gateway XP desktop and Dell XP portable all have the same IP address. New iPad2 comes up with a different one and seems to eat data from AT&T. All share the same residential router. Shouldn't the  iPad  IP be the same as the others?
    Thanks.
    Befuddled new iPad guy.

    Excuse again. Wrong info. Router # comes up same for all units.
    IP addreses are same except for last digit. As< I think it should be.
    Think I will visit the Apple store.
    Forget it, sorry to bother you. Fail.

  • Why is my data usage so high?

    Using Verizon's data calculator, 5G should me more than sufficient for the limited PC usage.  In one week, the data usage information indicates we have used over half in one week.  There are several entries in the breakdown for small amounts during the midnight hours, when computers are not in use and shut down. 
    I am very disappointed with the information provided before this plan was purchased, based on what we expected for our data needs.  By increasing the data amount our bill will increase 30.00  There are many sources that indicate 2G should be ample for each of us in the household (2).  So, I am not sure the calculations are correct that are being tracked with the Jetpack system.  Here is the data calculator, I entered more than twice the expected usage for the two laptops combined.  We download no music, videos, movies.  Simply check email and browse the web.  How do you explain this?
    Total
    3 GB/mo
    (3157 MB/mo)
    Mobile
    Broadband
    4G
    3 GB/mo
    5/21/2014 Data Calculator - Verizon Wireless

    The VZW Data Calculator is a tool designed to help estimate and visualize data usage.  Most folks have no idea what data is or how it is consumed on their devices.  The data calculator tool is not accurate on any front other than to give you a general idea how much data a particular function consumes under normal circumstances.
    VZW provides its users with a limited data usage report that does not break down individual application or device usage into meaningful results.  What you get instead is a power bill like summary of your usage in terms of how much was used at certain times of the day.  After all VZW is not in the computer support business, they provide you with the pipe and users determine how best to consume the data.  A leaky hose or application is not the responsibility of VZW to discover and correct.
    When it comes to the actual usage of your VZW device there isn't a whole lot out there that can show you how you are consuming your data plan.  Some monitor applications and devices can be setup ahead of time, but all they are good for is reviewing the data that flows through them.  Special care must be taken when designing and setting up monitors to make sure you capture everything.  Monitors are generally not user friendly to setup or understand and often require detailed readings of numerous logs to determine where problems are, if the monitor can even capture them at all.
    The current best practices for data usage are as follows:
    1. Power down your VZW device when it is not being used
    2. Secure your VZW device with a custom SSID, WiFi and Admin password
    - This should be in compliance with security best practices for strong passwords
    - A good site to reference is https://howsecureismypassword.net/
    3. Take care to disable and shutdown any automatic updates on your devices
    4. Be cautious to view and download audio/video content on low resolution
    In most cases high data usage is not an intentional doing on the users behalf.  It is the background applications and services installed on the connected devices that run rampant and chew up your data plan without your knowledge or consent.

  • Data usage and battery drain has skyrocketed with iOS 8.1.2 (maybe earlier)

    3 weeks ago my wife got a text message on her iPhone 5 from AT&T that she had used 90% of her data for the month.  30 seconds later, she got another one saying that she had used 100%.  Granted, her data plan is small, 200 MB.  But, for the last two years she has used as little as 17 MB in a month and her largest prior to this latest month was 49 mb.  This month she got to 380 mb before we were able to shut off her cell data.  Otherwise, a second chunk of 200 MB and another $15 would have been added to the month.
    We had noticed that her battery had been draining rather rapidly in standby mode with no background apps running when she didn't have access to WiFi.  We have now correlated the two results, High Cell data usage, Quick battery drain and very warm phone.  In case anyone is wondering about her iPhone 5 being one in the recall, it is.  I took it in and had it tested.  Apple says the battery is fine.  It does hold a charge well.  When all network communications are shut down on her phone and it is in standby mode, there is no noticeable loss of charge in 24 hours (our longest test).
    Since I have a grandfathered Unlimited Data Plan with AT&T, I have been doing some testing on my iPhone 5s.  Sure enough, I've seen similar results.  With nearly everything turned off except Cell Data, I've seen 483 MB used in 24 hours.  Of that total, 479 MB was used for Documents & Sync.  I even have everything turned off in my iCloud account, Location services are turned off, no push notifications etc...
    The best I can figure, this has been a problem since we installed 8.1.2 and yesterday I installed 8.1.3 resulting in no positive effect on this issue.
    At this rate of data usage and no access to WiFi, my wife would have to have a 15 Gb data plan to keep from exceeding her limit.  I don't think AT&T even offers one that big anymore.  I might have to switch to Sprint or T-Mobile if this doesn't get resolved.
    Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance for your shared insights.

    Hey this is Brian, bjmcmurry, under a different user ID.  If I logged in as bmcmurry, original post, I was just getting a server error and couldn't get to this discussion nor post a comment anywhere.
    Anyway, let me be as brief as I can.  After an extensive analysis of replicating the problem on another phone to eliminate it being a hardware specific issue and that the test phone has an unlimited data plan, I was able to stop the excessive data usage and consequential battery drain.  I believe I have a reasonable explanation of the problem, an iOS logic bug.
    I had everything under my control clamped down on the test phone to minimize data usage.  Also, I was forcing all data usage to use the cell towers.  I determined that I was burning at least 11 to 13 Mb per hour doing nothing important.  I literally had everything turned off except 'Settings' was allowed to use Cell data providing a avenue to log into the Apple ID. 
    The two phones had 2 things in common, they were using the same Apple ID and the same version of the OS.  One was a iPhone 5 and the other was a 5s.
    Here is a synopsis of my experience via my written evaluation of the Apple support system (Apple Rep name's have been removed):
    After a couple of hours on the phone with an Apple Care Senior support Analyst, it was suggested that I go to the Apple Store to 1) get my battery replace in the iPhone 5 since it qualified for the replacement program and 2) see if the Genius could provide me with any insight in the data usage issue and battery drain.
    I'm certainly glad I had multiple reasons to visit the closest Apple store, a 45 min drive.  I got the battery replaced, thanks for that. 
    Regarding the important issue to me that brought me to the Genius Bar, excessive Cell data usage, I thought the Genius did a wonderful job listening and documenting the problem we were experiencing.  Unfortunately, educating us on the use of the product or replacing our phone was not going to solve the problem.  He eventually figured it out, this was not a user error or broken hardware.  We surmised that the reason I was sent to him was to verify and document that there was a problem.  I clearly had a problem.  After writing copious notes on the issue, The Genius smartly referred me back the the AppleCare Senior Advisor.  So, back to AppleCare Senior Analyst I went. She, knowing this was not a simple problem to solve i.e. beyond her level of expertise, got an Apple Software engineer involved.
    My primary frustration is that this should have been escalated to software engineering right away.  My trip to see the Genius was, I believe, a waste of time for both me and Apple regarding this issue.  Diagnosis of this type of problem is well beyond the Genius’ knowledge and job.  The Genius did a very good job doing what he could within the scope of his job.  He just couldn’t solve this problem and had no one within Apple to which he had access for help.
    However, that initial consult with the engineer was a bit feeble.  Not only could I not talk to him/her directly, his/her focus was still working with the ‘Black Box' approach.  Having Analyst ask me to do stuff like restore the Phone was more like trying to find a 'work around' than 'identifying the real problem.'  Maybe restoring the phone was going to fix some corrupted data on the phone sidesteping the real problem, the handling of this condition.  The engineer did listen to the fact that I had restored the test phone, the 5s, and only added the use of my Apple ID.  Duh, been there!!!
    Having been an previous owner of a software development company that I started in 1980 and retired in 2001, I can tell you that using the 'Black Box' method of debugging is extremely inefficient.  Instead, having access to an ‘Activity Manager’ type app to identify in real time what process was blowing up the data flow would have saved me a lost afternoon at the Apple store and hours on the phone with tech support.
    Ironically, I may have stumbled onto a "work around" solution short of turning off Cell Data that stopped the excessive Cell Data usage and consequential battery drain.  Just prior to leaving the Apple Store, I used one of their Macs to log in my Apple ID on the id.apple.com website to ‘Manage my Apple ID’, I was forced to upgrade the security level of my password.  Afterward, my cell data usage seemed to drop dramatically.
    I told the AppleCare Senior Analyst that I may have stumbled onto a workaround and I suggested that I give it a couple of days of monitoring.  We'd talk then and I would have results to report.  She agreed. 
    Sure enough, my Document & Sync usage was back to normal, about 1/2 Mb per day.  Am I happy that the excessive Cell Data usage has stopped?  You bet!  But, there was no intuitive reason that an end user would know to log in on the ID website to unknowingly solve this problem.  As I use to say to my employees, that is not the ‘Macintosh Way.’  And, rebooting the the 'Microsoft Way.'
    When I reported my findings to the Analyst, we both concluded that data usage was back to normal.  She did report to me that the engineer did provide a laundry list of suggested activities to help solve the problem.  Remarkably, they were everything that I had already done and were pretty much what the Analyst and the Genius tried to do.  All reasonable tasks.  But clearly, the engineer hadn't even ready the notes on the case before responding.  And, none of the things suggested would have uncovered the real problem, likely a logic bug in iOS.
    My advice now is to have the software engineering team rule out that there was an unresolvable state that a background process was fiercely trying to handle.  The iOS does not seem to know how to intervene and prompt the user with a requirement to upgrade their password.  If this does end up being the case, I would call it a logic bug, a perpetual exception that is not being handled properly.
    Anyway, I hope this helps you.

  • Please help, my data usage is increasing and i dont know why?

    Hi, Iv had my blackberry for about 3 weeks and all was fine until yesterday.
    The data usage continuously increases even though im not connected to the internet or any applications.
    The only way i can stop the data usage increasing is if I turn the phone off or turn off all my connections to vodafone and wifi...
    I have deleted all the applications on the phone so it cant be them
    I have deleted all email accounts as well
    is there any way that I can find out what is causing my data usage to increase in this way (It even increases whilst im not even using the phone)
    Or is there a customer services number I can call that may be able to help me?
    any help would be greatly appreciated
    Thank you

    If you press and hold the Menu Key, how many applications show open? If there are more then five, select them and press the Menu Key and select Close.
    Then test to see if your data usage is better. If you are still having issues after this contact your wireless provider for further support options.
    Cheers,

  • Nokia 201 asha data usage

    Hi ive got the nokia 201 asha fone
    my network provider charges for data usage even when your not using it,ive set it up for my emails with hotmail.co.uk and facebook,to keep intouch with family while away from home which admittedly wont be very often hence i dont have it as part of my package and im on payg,
    ive had to delete it as i dont want to be charged when not using them,
    is there any way i can put the settings back on but turn it off so that im not downloading data updates when not in use
    many thanks
    Debbie

    easiest way is to switch your phone to Offline mode, not sure if there is a data toggle on the Asha series of phones like there is on Symbian.

  • Changed to 4G, data usage gone through roof.

    I was on 3G orange and have been upgraded to 4G for free on  EE (same company) Have not used the phone any differently since change and added no more apps etc. Suddenly i am flying through my data usage of which i hardly used before. Only use it for google etc so not heavy useage. I use approx 100meg a month. I have now used 400 in 2 weeks with little usage, to me this is a lot of data for nothing.
    Any ideas anyone??

    wilden160 wrote:
    how come? it wasnt using BIS on 3G so why should it use more data on the 4G?
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    I don't know why it's showing more on 4g than 3g, but it is a face that the Z10 uses more data.
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  • What is "Data Usage"

    I have a Samsung Stratosphere. My plan allows 4 gb. of usage monthly. For the first time in over two years of owning this phone, my Data usage has gone over 1 gb. what exactly is considered "Data Usage" and how can I manage it?

    Data usage takes place when you use your phone for visiting Web sites, emails, apps like Facebook or Instagram when you are not connected to wifi. You Can Manage it By in settings Under data usage and limit mobile data usage and set limits with the graph.  Or by simply watch what you are doing when you're not on wifi don't stream audio or video as much. You can also add family base feature for $5/ month which let's you make hard stop on mobile data at 4G for example and you mange that from your my Verizon online via a control panel. It's free for 3 months on a more everything plan also.  Hope this helps

  • Data Usage glitch?

    Hello all, today I decided to turn on cellular data to recive a picture. When I went to turn it off I looked at the data usage. IT SAID I USED ABOUT 20 GB. TOTAL!!!!!! Is this a glitch because I have push notifications for apps and email push turned off. I only have 10 apps installed how would I even use that much data and BTW I was on wifi and left the screen locked for about 20 minutes! This better be a glitch or my parents will slice my head off. I know for a FACT I havent used 20 gb of data. I did reset it about a week ago and have had 3G off since then. Does anyone know if it's a glitch. I DO NOT have unlimited data. Please help me I'm about to have a panic attack I'm so scared. Does anyone know if its a glitch? I also noticed that the battery usage setting somehow turned itsself off.

    Solution is at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2620623?threadID=2620623. It's a bug.

  • Mandatory data usage charge

    To whoever it concerns,
    After a very rude and unpleasant trip to my local verizon store, I have just found out that in order to get a normal phone-sorry the "feature" phones looks extremely cheap for a bussiness professional- I must pay a mandatory data useage charge of 10$ on top of my already high bill. This is absurd because I never use any "data" anyway on my plan as it stands, so in order to get the phone, which by the way I already owned without this extra charge, I now must pay 10$ for internet that I will never and don't even know how to use. Whoever thought this was a good idea is insane. While this might trick a few innocent people who simply do not notice the charge at first, I can almost guarantee you will see a substantial drop in customers, including myself, my family, and all of my friends. 

    Just remember to turn off your cellular usage while you're in Wi-Fi areas, because you will continue to accumulate data usage even though you're using WiFi...at least that's what happened to me.

  • Mobile data usage meter is HUGELY overcharging me...why?

    It's 4-5 days since I got my sim card for the $49 Freedom Connect BYO plan.  That's a plan with 1.5 gigs included data and 25c per megabyte for excess data.  My data usage meter says I've used 0 kb of my included data and over $400 worth of pay as you go data (200mb charged at $2 a megabyte).  I spoke to the chat support a few days ago and they confirmed this is 'wrong' and said they 'take the charges away'.  Well, since then, my data has continued to be charged at $2 per megabyte.  Holy cow, does Telstra want my house?  Can anyone clarify, reassure or otherwise me about this?

    jonandemi wrote:
    Thanx Ben_F i hope you get payed mate I have received tokens of appreciation from Telstra for my work on these forums, however that isn't why I come here and it isn't why I post (I think Jokiin and Drat would agree). jonandemi wrote:
     just cant believe how regular these problems are and telstra do nothing to fix up the usage meter. How many people get ripped off and dont know and how many people get ripped off and dont have the guts to fight/know how to get the moeny back (huge amounts).Thats subjective really..... There aren't as many posts on this issue as, for example, the SG2 threads. As for not knowing, I would assume that customers would think about contacting Telstra via Phone, Email, LiveChat or via  a Telstra Store (Last Resort). Customers should feel free to able to contact suppliers and ask questions about their account. jonandemi wrote:
    I know of 3 people personally who have payed over $800 each and left telstra for good because they just didnt want the stress of dealing with it or didnt know how to deal with it. They just payed it.I've had the issue happen to me once (wasn't aware of my limit). When I spoke with LiveChat it was refunded, and it took me half an hour. Pretty good for about $400 of charges. jonandemi wrote:
    Its wrong, a usage meter should be up to date to the hour at least.If you knew how usage was metered and counted, you understand why it takes 24 hours usually. B.

  • I'm having trouble with occasional high data consumption.  In November, I was told by Verizon I'd used 2 times my normal data.  Then again on Friday, Verizon told us we'd used approximatley 3 Giga Bytes on our Hot Spot.  Both of us had been working that d

    We're having problems with occasional mega data usage on our 3G Hot Spot.

    Power down your Jetpack while it is not in use, at least until you get your usage problem under control.  Bring your PC to a different area and see if you can let it sit connected for a while to complete whatever it is struggling with.

  • I'm accruing data usage when I'm connected to wifi

    I'm positive that Verizon is committing Fraud.
    10 days ago my husband and I switched from Sprint to Verizon and got new Galaxy S5 phones.  While with Sprint, my husband used about 1.5GB of data a month and I used .5GB a month.  The reason my usage was less was because I use my phone less (duh) but also because my phone very often wouldn't connect to their service, 3G or their so called 4G at all.  My husband didn't have this problem, but I got so fed up with the connectivity that we switched to Verizon.  We thought that since I would be able to use my phone a little more and the data would be faster and more reliable, it would be prudent to buy 3GB of data a month even though we were only averaging 2GB before. 
    Well, after having Verizon for 10 days, we have used 2.3GB between the two of us; .5GB for me and 1.8GB for my husband.  In other words, our data usage has MORE THAN TRIPLED with Verizon.  This is absolutely wrong, so I did some investigating.  I looked at the data usage details spreadsheet that Verizon posts online with the date, time and amount of each occurrence of data usage.  Be aware that we have wifi at home (where we are basically every night from 7pm-7am) and my husband has wifi at work (weekdays 8am-5pm).  I was SHOCKED to see that the vast majority of my husbands outrageous usage was being incurred specifically during times when he was at work or home, even significant amounts at 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning.  Only a little usage was being accrued during the about 3 hours a day when he might not be connected to wifi.
    I spent over an hour on the phone today (including 40 minutes on hold) with tech support.  They must have thought I was an idiot because they kept telling me about how our phones are using a lot of RAM.  I'm no IT expert, but RAM is internal memory and not equivalent to data usage.  Then they tried to tell me that the time stamps on our spreadsheets were delayed and that the data was really being used when not on wifi but not showing up on my account until some unknown period of time later. This is ******** and I debunked that theory by turning off my data (when there actually was no usage accrued) and then turned my data back on momentarily at 10:15am.  A usage charge popped up a little while later on my account time stamped 10:16am.  Pretty accurate, which tells me that the other time stamps are also accurate to within a minute or two; not off by many hours.
    Then tech support told me to try a test to see if I can show that data is being accrued when I'm definitely not using it.  They told me to turn off my data for an extended period of time, use wifi only, and then check my account to see if data charges are accruing.  Well, of course data isn't accruing when data is off.  That proves nothing.  That does not have any bearing whatsoever on the fact that data usage is accruing when data service is ON but I'm CONNECTED to a reliable, strong, functioning WIFI signal like the one at my home and the one in my husband's office.  There are only two explanations left.  Either my husband and I are severely psyciatrically disabled and are imagining having working wifi signals and are somehow watching youtube videos in our sleep; OR VERIZON IS COMMITTING FRAUD.  Its one or the other, the way I see it.
    IS THERE A REASONABLE SOLUTION TO THIS???  Resolving this issue by telling me to manually turn my data service on and off each time I come and go from my house is unacceptable.  Verizon, you need to fix your practices and remove the fraudulent usage from my account immediately.  Since I'm sure you won't, I'll be switching to AT&T since I still have 3 days to cancel my contract.  Third time is a charm, I hope.

    I took it off WiFi and complained on their Facebook page.  I think their
    salespeople telling folks to always stay on WiFi is their way of making
    money!  Take your phones OFF of WiFi, put Task Killer Advanced (google play
    store - FREE) on your phone and hit that repeatedly during the day.  It
    will shut down the junk running in the background that loves to nom on your
    data.  The other thing I do is to constantly dump cached data from my
    phone.  We did all three of these things and we have only burned up .7 of
    our 3GB limit since June 1st!  Not even a whole GB in 19 days!  Also,
    remove all updates from every app that your phone came with (bloatware)
    every so often. And shut the phone down every night after you run the task
    killer and empty your data cache. Somewhere along the line I will learn how
    to completely uninstall that darned bloatware and I will pass it on!
    Let me know if this makes a difference for you!
    -Carole
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  • Unlimited Data Usage??

    I have a very basic question. I have Comcast (up to 35Mb/s down). I am a very heavy user. Earlier this month, I was contacted by Comcast and advised that I exceeded my data usage for the month. Data usage?? What data usage? Come to find out that, regardless of the tier one is on, the limit is 250GB/month. In July, I used 1.6TBs. I am looking for an alternative. I have read, only from external forums dated from late 2008/early 2009, that Verizon does not cap. Can someone please either confirm or dispute this? If someone can point me to a specific statement in Verizon's contract or policies stating one way or another that would be even better. If not, a definitive response one way or another would suffice. Thanks

    Many residential ISP's are implementing usage caps to protect their customer base from individual users who unduly burden the backbone networks with disproportionate amounts of data traffic and as a result degrade the overall performance of the network for everyone.  250GB is a LOT of information for traditional residential user connection -- particular since you are explicitly prohibited from running any kind of "server" based connection.
    With that said, I am not aware of any communicated limit from Verizon although atypical usage is certain to gather someone's attention, I suspect.   To which I refer you to the Terms of Service agreement:
    Restrictions on Use. The Service is a consumer grade service and is not designed for or intended to be used for any commercial purpose. You may not resell the Service, use it for high volume purposes, or engage in similar activities that constitute such use (commercial or non-commercial). If you subscribe to a Broadband Service, you may connect multiple computers/devices within a single home to your modem and/or router to access the Service, but only through a single Verizon-issued IP address. You also may not exceed the bandwidth usage limitations that Verizon may establish from time to time for the Service, or use the Service to host any type of server. Violation of this section may result in bandwidth restrictions on your Service or suspension or termination of your Service.
    In short, if they see a problem, they can enact a bandwidth usage limitation and can take the remedies outlined therein.  YMMV.

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