Anyone using Exede satellite internet? Big increases of data usage?

[GunCat]

If you are an Exede customer have you noticed a significant increase in the amount of bandwidth data the meter shows you are using in the past 2 weeks (since the meter was turned back on as of April 19) ?

[Bill Nesbitt]

I have Wildblue which is part of Northland Connect which has something to do with Exede.

I had a big jump in December with mine. They said I exceeded my limit and slowed my speed way down. I called customer support and after several days and lots of calls they gave me a "one time reset". Since, I have checked it several times a day and couldn't make any sense out of the bandwidth measurements. Over the last 2 months my usage has dropped from a high in the mid 80% range down to 40% and I don't think I have been using it that much less.

One factor in my usage might have been that we got the 3 kids all Kindles for Christmas. I shut off the internet connection for them and then my usage has gone steadily down.

I'm not convinced that the equipment they use to measure usage works right.

[BritinUSA]

If you have any smart phones then they may be using the wifi connection to push email or accessing location services such as GPS etc.