My wife (and for the next week, myself) is/are in Alaska preparing her brother to join us in Mexico in retirement. He has no internet connectivity of any kind.

To solve this, my wife bought an ATT device called Velocity which provides local Wi-Fi connectivity by tying into the cellular network. ATT assured her that the 2GB per month plan would be plenty for email and Facebook.

It wasn't even close.

Is it even remotely possible that she could have used 1,785,699 kilobytes, not bytes, over a cellular connection by being on Facebook for less than half an hour? No videos watched, no files downloaded, just reading and answering Facebook posts.

ATT says, "Here are the dates and times and amounts of data you used, nothing we can do about it." At $25 for 2GB, plus the $150 for the device, I feel like she has been ripped off.

Is there something I don't understand here?

tanstaafl.