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Quick hotspot question
 

So I got this hotspot offered by a Canadian provider which I will use as backup in case my DSL and dial-up gets knocked out.

I am not super-versed with the hotspot use but here's the deal (and yes, it's a sucky price) - 150 mb costs 10$ - any usage above that up to 1 gB costs $30 or so.

If I just use the hotspot for eb listing, feedback, and quick page checking - for let's say 15 accounts on a weekly basis....is the usage likely to be less than 150 mb? I am sure it will be less than 1 gB but I am just wondering on eB load mb use these days...

Re: Quick hotspot question
 

I would think you would eat through 150mb pretty fast depending on what you do.

Images can be 0.5mb+ each after all so if your checking lots of images that would burn through the data pretty fast

Re: Quick hotspot question
 

images are what hurt the most when using these to create listings. either way, you can easily track this from the devices control panel or, with a lot of the new ones, they will show the usage on a screen right on the device.

Re: Quick hotspot question
 

Average bandwidth I consume on 1 account monthly is 2-3gb.

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Thanks all - true, I had forgotten about the images

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rsot, once you have the listings created, monitoring them and creating shipping labels consumes far less data. so choose one of your internet sources to create listings and then just control the rest from the MiFi to keep your data consumption/fees down.

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Guess depends on your level of activity too

@unkown, true - good point - I want to combine this hotspot and dial-up to save me some loading time