What is considered data when using the internet.

I was, regretfully, convinced by Verizon that I needed to go wireless all the way when my wife and I purchased our phones. We are on a shared 10GB plan. I honestly thought I was getting unlimited internet use like I had with an ATT router. No one told me we would be using the data from our phone plan. We are using a laptop and a desk computer and only use them for personal use intermittently during the day. Within a week we start getting warnings about going over our data limit. I would like to know exactly what constitutes DATA and why are we going over the limit so quick. According to our usage reports, our phones are using very little. We are using the SCH-LC 11 hot spot. Any help is appreciated.

DATA as far as VZW is concerned is any communication that you send/request over thier network (internet). This could be emails, websites, pictures, videos, ect. If you are accessing anything over the internet on a VZW device then VZW considers it data and deducts it from your shared data plan.
Chances are very good that your home computers are chatting over the internet while you are away or asleep. This chatter can be generated automatically by auto update programs, virus scans, MS patches or apps running on your home appliances.
To get to the bottom of it you will need to do some research and discover what is going on with your home network. This proceedure starts by disconnecting anything that is not currently in use and disabling any kind of auto updates on the computers. Do not leave anything connected when you are not using it and try to only use one device at a time. This isolates your traffic to specific devices so that you can look at your data logs and determine what was connected and using data at that time.
From there continue to check your Data logs on the VZW website and cross reference the times with whatever was connected until you can determine where your big consumptions are coming from.
Watching Videos, downloading pictures or streaming audio are going to be your biggest hitters for personal internet useage so keep that in mind too. Normal websurfing and emails are not normally a large portion of most folks data use.

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