gunrunnerjohn posted:Yardmaster96 posted:Trust me, I know, if we leave the wifi active on our phones, Samsung will skip the cell signal and go straight for the buffet line known as wifi signal.
Interesting issue, I truthfully hadn't thought of that. I guess I'm spoiled with gigabit unlimited data on my Internet connection and don't consider stuff like that.
I am curious, what kind of phone updates would chew up so much data? Exactly how much data are you allowed a month? It sounds like it's not much!
There is an easy solution. Set your wifi network on your phone or tablet as a "metered" connection. This will prevent background data, updates, and any kind data dump you may be worried about. The only time that wifi connection will use data is when you specifically open an app in the foreground that you see running on the screen. A strong recommendation anyway if you are running on a connection with bandwidth limits.
I've done some extensive monitoring of the DCS WIU of how it will use your internet connection and have only that it will request the current time from an NTP server on boot up. That's about 4 kilobytes of data, the tiniest droplet of water in the massive internet ocean.
