If she used the hotspot to connect the brothers computer to the internet for the first time in a while, I am betting it was OS background updates. 2GB of updates isn't uncommon for OS X or Windows over the period of a few months to a year.
Nope. She was using her old Samsung netbook running Windows XP. No updates there.
The Velocity thing is turned off (powered down) when not actively on-line.
What I question is whether it might even be
possible to use 1.76 GB of data on a through a cheap little box on a cellular network in half an hour. By my numbers (which don't match Tony's):
1,785,699 Kilobytes in 30 minutes =
14,285,592 Kilo
bits in 30 minutes =
13,951
Megabits in 30 minutes =
465 Megabits in one minute =
7.75 Megabits per second transfer speed.
That would be respectable speed for a cable modem where I come from, and from the "feel" of it when I used it I would guess the actual data transfer rate of the Velocity was perhaps a quarter or less of what I get in Mexico at 15mbps on my cable modem.
We are
not going to plug another $25 into that Velocity. $50 an hour is too much to spend looking at Facebook. So my only internet access now is to take my $250 laptop to the local Sears mall where they have free WiFi. Slow WiFi: 1.26mbps download, about half that on upload. I don't know that the Velocity was a lot faster. I'm typing this right outside the door to the ATT store, I think I'll go ask them what they think their download speed is over their cellular network. Too bad I never thought to run the SpeedTest site when we had the Velocity running.
Tanstaafl.
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