01-07-2023, 02:27 PM
Thank you everyone. To answer the points you have made:
We don't have home wifi. When I tried to set up the modem and printer that should work wirelessly it didn't work and they are plugged in manually. I think it's likely that the computer is too old. Future plan is to upgrade and get someone in to set it up but not yet.
The phone isn't connected to anything - ie I don't use it to log into anything so it's safety is because it is separate from any services that require logins that could be intercepted. When out and about I pretty much only check traffic and possibly phone/text DH to tell him if I'm running late or anything.
At home 99% of the use is checking news and sometimes doing a google search - eg if I'm watching TV and see something I want to know more about and DH is on the computer, I'll use my phone. Not much of that though. Mostly just news, and few videos except those that open on autoplay (more below). Which I why I'm thinking the data is getting ridiculous.
I don't do social media - just a couple of forums and never on the phone.
The 1.25gb data option used to be fine. The growth in usage has been steady and insidious. The sites I use are a local news site that has one photo per article on the list of articles and sometimes one or two more in the article itself. Herald has a text only list of headlines and some photos when I click to read one. Newshub also has a text only list of articles but when I click to read one the "photo" is usually a video and auto loads. I make it stop playing as soon as it will - always takes too long and I'm wondering if this is the main culprit - automatically loading every video whether I watch it or not. I've tried turning off the autoplay and can't. The closest I get is that apparently if I log into YouTube I could turn it off there, but I don't have a YouTube login, and don't plan to.
All of the sites have silly advertising and click bait "30 wonderful photos of xxx". I occasionally scroll through one of them because the photos can be entertaining, but back out as soon as I get the "next" button that tells me this will go on forever loading new pages. Of course any that I do watch are loaded with ads so I don't actually do it very often. If I was doing it every day I would expect it to be the problem, but it's only once or twice a month and I don't think they can be that data hungry.
I've tried watching the data over a month or so and haven't seen anything jump out as being hungrier than anything else.
Phone is Android - Samsung A13. When I upgraded to it from my old Samsung S5 I didn't see any sudden jump in usage, just the relentless increase over time.
We don't have home wifi. When I tried to set up the modem and printer that should work wirelessly it didn't work and they are plugged in manually. I think it's likely that the computer is too old. Future plan is to upgrade and get someone in to set it up but not yet.
The phone isn't connected to anything - ie I don't use it to log into anything so it's safety is because it is separate from any services that require logins that could be intercepted. When out and about I pretty much only check traffic and possibly phone/text DH to tell him if I'm running late or anything.
At home 99% of the use is checking news and sometimes doing a google search - eg if I'm watching TV and see something I want to know more about and DH is on the computer, I'll use my phone. Not much of that though. Mostly just news, and few videos except those that open on autoplay (more below). Which I why I'm thinking the data is getting ridiculous.
I don't do social media - just a couple of forums and never on the phone.
The 1.25gb data option used to be fine. The growth in usage has been steady and insidious. The sites I use are a local news site that has one photo per article on the list of articles and sometimes one or two more in the article itself. Herald has a text only list of headlines and some photos when I click to read one. Newshub also has a text only list of articles but when I click to read one the "photo" is usually a video and auto loads. I make it stop playing as soon as it will - always takes too long and I'm wondering if this is the main culprit - automatically loading every video whether I watch it or not. I've tried turning off the autoplay and can't. The closest I get is that apparently if I log into YouTube I could turn it off there, but I don't have a YouTube login, and don't plan to.
All of the sites have silly advertising and click bait "30 wonderful photos of xxx". I occasionally scroll through one of them because the photos can be entertaining, but back out as soon as I get the "next" button that tells me this will go on forever loading new pages. Of course any that I do watch are loaded with ads so I don't actually do it very often. If I was doing it every day I would expect it to be the problem, but it's only once or twice a month and I don't think they can be that data hungry.
I've tried watching the data over a month or so and haven't seen anything jump out as being hungrier than anything else.
Phone is Android - Samsung A13. When I upgraded to it from my old Samsung S5 I didn't see any sudden jump in usage, just the relentless increase over time.