Vodacom Mygig1 used up in 7 days on laptop?

[atarr]

I have a Vodacom contract for Mygig 1 for use on my ex-wife's laptop. I received an account for 1.446Gig for the month of March 2014, and on enquiring, discovered that the April 1 Gig was used up in 7 days, despite my ex-wife declaring that she seldom uses the computer with dongle as she hates Win 7. All she normally downloads is a few emails and has a look at her Facebook page, she normally uses her i-phone for most of her emails and FB visits. How is it possible for someone else to access her cell no and download enormous quantities when the computer is turned off and the dongle not plugged in or connected??

 

[Venomous]

I have not looked at the win7 updates for April...

I know there has been a big win8.1 update a few days ago. Perhaps Win7 had a bigger update too?

On mobile so a bit difficult to go search.

 

[AstroTurf]

I used about 1.2gb on my cellphone in the last 18 hours. (Yes I had very little sleep last night).

 

[Totempole]

I have a Vodacom contract for Mygig 1 for use on my ex-wife's laptop. I received an account for 1.446Gig for the month of March 2014, and on enquiring, discovered that the April 1 Gig was used up in 7 days, despite my ex-wife declaring that she seldom uses the computer with dongle as she hates Win 7. All she normally downloads is a few emails and has a look at her Facebook page, she normally uses her i-phone for most of her emails and FB visits. How is it possible for someone else to access her cell no and download enormous quantities when the computer is turned off and the dongle not plugged in or connected??

1.446GB's is by no means enormous. In fact, I couldn't get away with using less than 200MB's a day even if I tried. A simple 6 minute Youtube clip could cost you as much as 60MB's of data depending on the quality level.

 

[RichardG]

I loaned my cousin my speed stick in good faith for 2 days. She depleted 5 gigs in no time, facebook(updating status, viewing pics etc). Just alone used over 200 megs on my phone updating apps. Perhaps iPhone had a firmware update.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

I loaned my cousin my speed stick in good faith for 2 days. She depleted 5 gigs in no time, facebook(updating status, viewing pics etc). Just alone used over 200 megs on my phone updating apps. Perhaps iPhone had a firmware update.

Which was a bad idea. Did she go OOB with 5Gb's?

If family want to download an update, or something, they're welcome to use the wifi (afrihost uncapped ADSL) at my house. But I will not loan my 3G out for them, because you then have no control over what they do with it.

Or they can stop being such cheapskates and sign up for either Afrihost, CellC or TM data...

 

[Spotja]

I used about 1.2gb on my cellphone in the last 18 hours. (Yes I had very little sleep last night).

Pron?

 

[genetic]

How is it possible for someone else to access her cell no and download enormous quantities when the computer is turned off and the dongle not plugged in or connected??

I can guarantee you no one accessed her cell no and downloaded content. She used the data. 1,4GB is not a lot.

 

[Hectic]

I have a Vodacom contract for Mygig 1 for use on my ex-wife's laptop. I received an account for 1.446Gig for the month of March 2014, and on enquiring, discovered that the April 1 Gig was used up in 7 days, despite my ex-wife declaring that she seldom uses the computer with dongle as she hates Win 7. All she normally downloads is a few emails and has a look at her Facebook page, she normally uses her i-phone for most of her emails and FB visits. How is it possible for someone else to access her cell no and download enormous quantities when the computer is turned off and the dongle not plugged in or connected??

The mere fact that she seldom turns on the laptop/dongle combo could be the reason for the "high" usage.
That means that there might be more/bigger updates to be done for the various software packages on the laptop.

If you have a good connection in your area, that 1.4GB could be utilized very quickly.
If I let my 4Mbps line download for an hour, it would download on average 1.4GB in an hour. That is in the region of 400kB/s on average.

3G or better can easily better my stats without breaking a sweat.

 

[AstroTurf]

Pron?

Apps...

 

[Electric]

1.4gb is nothing.
Auto-update will do that.