[Xavier]

Originally Posted by VillagesFlorida

We used my cell phone this past summer as a hot spot while on vacation. I chose the 4GB Share Everything Plan since my daughter went with Verizon at the same time. We used almost no data at all until one day my husband updated his Tom Tom, using our laptop. Within a half hour or so I received a text notification that I was at 50% of my 4GB. Ten minutes later a text arrived tellling me I was at 75%. I thought there must be a mistake. Each time I got the text notification I went online and increased my data by 2 more GB. Since I didn't make the increases retroactive to the first day of my billing cycle I was hit with 3 $25 overage charges on my next bill. I WAS able to get those charges removed. We weren't downloading a movie or music and I never gave a thought to updating a GPS unit as a huge data user. ( In the end we used over 6GB on that one update......AND, how many updates of our electronics might we do every month??) We finished the summer on the hot spot but returned to Comcast, which we thankfully had not canceled. While many Villagers have had issues with Comcast we have, for the most part, been happy with the service.

Updating the maps on a GPS really uses up the data. I update four times a year and I almost always wait until I'm on WiFi somewhere. For instance, I updated at an RV dealership in October and In July I updated my maps while camped in Tennessee. Last Spring I did update with our Smartphone. Our GPS is a Garmin and I believe the biggest update was just under 3 gigs.

Xavier