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Re: Gigabites
rcschnoor
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When you say you "had no Verizon activity at all", does that mean the Jetpack/computer were both turned off or were you just not sitting at the computer?

If the computer and/or Jetpack was NOT turned off there are reasons why you CAN be using data when NOT sitting at the computer, but at, say, a scheduled appointment.

Email, for instance. Do you MANUALLY check for email, or do you have email automatically downloaded to your computer when it arrives(i.e. push email). Another method is to have your computer check for email on regularly scheduled intervals, such as every 10 minutes, 15 minutes, or whatever interval you determine. Each and Every time your email client contacts the server, whether or not ANY email is actually downloaded or received, you are using data. Even if you are not at your computer and are, say, at a scheduled appointment.

Do you have your computer set up to regularly check for updates? Weather apps? Text apps? An app store which lets you know when updates are available for download? A webpage open with content that changes(or updates)? These are ALL items which CAN and WILL use data even if you are, say, at a scheduled appointment.

Regardless, 45 KB is NOT a large amount of data. It is only 0.045 MB and 0.000045 GB. It is not unreasonable to think one of the above examples is the reason for the data usage at that time.

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