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763S Aircard Excessive Data Usage and Firmware Updates
There is an option in the Advanced Setting to check for Firmware Updates. There is one icon to "Check for Updates Now" and other pull down tab options of: Daily Weekly Bi-Weekly Monthly How ...
Hi nettygear
With downloads that size I would suspect windows updates running in the background. In my case to stop this I turned the netgear connection into a metered connection on my windows laptop and that stopped most of my overage issues. ...however it did not stop the background download of win10 upgrade. ..I found no way to stop that until it was complete.
My usual solution is to NOT auto connect to the netgear with my laptop and disconnect overnight...I find this helps.
With downloads that size I would suspect windows updates running in the background. In my case to stop this I turned the netgear connection into a metered connection on my windows laptop and that stopped most of my overage issues. ...however it did not stop the background download of win10 upgrade. ..I found no way to stop that until it was complete.
My usual solution is to NOT auto connect to the netgear with my laptop and disconnect overnight...I find this helps.