[Wavytone]

Hah ... Alex the big uptick in data volume isn’t from ordinary web surfing ... as you say there’s only so much you can consume.

Here the big usage stems from:

- me using my MacBook and iPhone hotspot to access office remotely - frequently video calls - and this can be intensive for many hours. This can chew 1GB per hour.

- iCloud syncing lots of photos up/down between our various devices - wife is quite capable of 1000 shots a week of which I delete 99%.

- AppleTV downloading 4K video which we tend to watch in preference to TV.

- little fella has discovered YouTube and ABC Kids. Hes quite capable of getting through 2-3 GB a day, though I’m expecting the novelty will wear off soon.

So in total it’s not unusual for our total usage to exceed 10GB per day and sometimes 15GB. We have a bundle with Internode that works out about $150 a month across the lot.

In some respects there are ways to do all this without chewing through so much data - however with an all-Apple setup that collectively has worked seamlessly for us for years I’m not likely to switch. What’s more impressive IMHO is that it all DOES work reliably - so well it has saved the day many times when my customers work environments had failed one way or another - and the cost isn’t punitive.