I have a 300GB cap with my 55/5 plan, and I've never gone over not for lack of trying. The router you get with Homefusion does not do that. Get a network router that monitors bandwidth. Make sure apple store is set not to auto update iOS apps. After a while they are automatic and forced on you. If they fail they re-try.Īpple phones and tablets: iOS updates can be >1GB. Make sure your device is up to date -> Settings -> Auto-udpate. Update apps on your schedule and when you have bandwidth to spare. Some app updates can be large and frequent. Facebook is a bandwidth hog!Īndriod phones and tablets: Make sure Google play settings are set to not auto-update apps. Wife is on Facebook all day and that can use 1GB+/day just in Facebook. Make sure Facebook settings are set to not auto play videos. Use ad blockers! Ads can auto-load videos.Įven some sites like Facebook can use a lot of data. It has a handy little graph showing network usage in real time and logs usage per hour/day so you can see exactly what your machine is doing. If using Windows 10 Pro or higher you can edit group policy settings to turn off auto-update. If windows updates fail or get interrupted they re-try over and over. Even a fully patched Windows machine updates its built in Virus definitions when turned on. Also by default windows 10 acts as a 'peer' or server to other windows machines on the internet and serves them updates too using your bandwidth! Some settings can be turned of via control panel -> windows update. If you don't have the latest builds, updates can be >1GB in size. Windows PC's: Windows (especially Windows 10) likes to download its updates by default as soon as you turn it on.We have HomeFusion and have to constantly monitor usage.

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