Off Topic Fire stick help

Techophobe here, so need some assistance . I asked in Curry’s , but he looked at me like I had asked for something in basic Latin . I have just joined the 21st century and finally got broadband at home - I purchased an amazon fire stick to make my TV into a smart Tv. It is using 6gb of data a day , we do not online game and Barely watch it - we don’t download loads of films . Maybe an hour a day , and most of that is watching Mr Tumble on YouTube . Isn’t that loads? Other people have told me they game etc, and use 30/40gb a month . It is like the fire stick just constantly uses data when we are not using it . Can this be stopped? Without having to unplug it all the time , if I binned it and got an actual Smart TV will that do the same?

 

Never had that problem with my Fire Stick. Only uses data when watching something in it, About 1 gb an hour for standard TV and up to 2.5 gb for HD I believe. Are you putting it in sleep mode when not using the app, though I wouldn’t have thought it should make a great difference.
Definitely best to have an unlimited data contract if using these sort of things.

 

I’ve turned it off yesterday to see if it was the stick - and we used 0.2gb data .... on Monday all I watched was half an hour on Netflix - and my usage was 5.5gb , so by that logic that half hour used 5.3gb- I do not put it in sleep mode , for now I am just unplugging it . Unlimited data is just only an extra 4 quid so maybe should stop been tight and pay that .

 

I tend to use the knob on the window sill with the letters A to G on it.

Hope this helps.

 

Don’t touch the lit end.


Sorry

 

Mr Tumbles not a small fella, with all his dancing around I can magine that's your problem!
Put 'Loose Women' on it works for me, I switch it off instantly!

 

I’ll post it on Not606 I thought , that’s full of helpful informative people usually I thought . Schoolboy error

 

or get an unlimited data contract then it doesn’t matter what setting you have it on.
I have read 2.5 and 3gb per hour in various articles but never 6.

 

I think the 2.5-3gb varieties are only available in Norwich.

 

Well it is a leader in so many things compared to less advanced cities...

 

Sudocream and antihistamines?

 

I think his knob might be the problem, too much porn in 4k.

 

No chance of me lasting for 6gb worth ..