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Mac Mini - Draining my 4G Wifi Data Allowance?

  • 12-07-2016 08:41AM
    #1
    kifi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 508 ✭✭✭


    I recently purchased a mac mini and connected it to my mobile 4G internet.
    After about 2 hours use, my mobile dongle data allowance expired. I never use up my monthly allowance, and it is about 1 week until my next billing cycle. In any case, I contacted Vodafone and requested a 10 GB add on. After this, I used to mac mini again for about 2 hours, just playing youtube videos, after that, the 10GB expired. Is it possible that there is something going on in the background that is draining my data?


Comments

  • #2
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,449 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    dropbox syncing?

    go to spotlight and search for "Activity Monitor" and click the Network tab and see what processes are using the most network resources?


  • #3
    Sad Professor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,714 ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Web browsing would use a lot. Desktop websites are very bloated. Add in hi-def Youtube and that would account for a lot it. The Mac may also be syncing with iCloud, iTunes, downloading app updates in the background, etc. You can disable some of these things, but tbh using a mobile dongle with a Mac for anything but very short periods probably isn't a good idea.


  • #4
    kifi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 508 ✭✭✭kifi


    thanks, I normally use an iPAD and have been using this 4G dongle for about 10 months now. Never had this issue. Maybe I can go find some sync options and disable them...


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