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By: Aditya

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As of 5.1, iOS has a separate “tethering data” statistic under Settings->General->Usage->Cellular Usage->Tethering Data

By: sea

sea — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 09:56:16 +0000

Hi there – what a fabulous list – thankyou!
I am not very technical, new to apple world of only 2 years since iphone, so I found your list very helpful.

3 points from a beginner.
sorry if they are obvious for advance users.
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1: recently:
I created a new wireless (without internet connection), as I share the internet with household.

This has helped me how often apps were connecting to internet and myself not realising it. Its amazing how often you use the internet without realising it.
e.g. userguides, help pages

This works as I do big data transfers from macbook to TimeCapsule, or TC to iphone. and that was messing up all the data stats and using the wireless network with internet bandwidth.

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2:
I loaded LittleSnitch
to learn when it fact my apps were connecting to internet
as a baby technical person, I learnt, almost all apps try to connect to internet on open.

What for… I have no idea….
because as sstandard practice, I always have “check for updates manually”. so why they need a connection on open… i have no idea..

next step:
is to learn what all those connections are for, so I can disable the ones that are not required in LittleSnitch.

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3:
Default the non-internet wireless network as the primary wireless network — so my iphone goes there versus sits on internet when at home.

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4:
Monitoring Data Usage
This is where I am stuck as I have not found ANY TOOL to differientiates between wireless networks. Surplus Meter is easiest tool in my view, but it also does not differentiate between wireless networks.

what would be great is, if someway, I can get surplus meter to start working when I switch to wireless network = “name”.

maybe someone knows how to do that.
currently I just have to remember to start it or TURN IT OFF when i switch to filesharing wireless.

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what would also be great, is if Surplus Meter could show in top right hand corner, next to wifi symbol, of the mb used TODAY. that would be very helpful.

I have no idea how to control what goes up in the top right hand corner (not sure what you call that part of the desktop)

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thanks again for your osx guide
I have found it the best ever blog thing I receive each day via email. and I am so not technical.

I love your sense of humour!
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cheers

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:48:36 +0000

Some great tips there Tim, thanks I will add them to the bonus list.

By: Budges

Budges — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:26:51 +0000

For moderate work I don’t have to change habits at all other than to account for slower speeds, though work doesn’t involve videos and heavy data streaming for me.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:22:17 +0000

* Use a Flash Blocker

* Use an Ad blocking plugin

* Use an RSS Reader to view web favorite web content and avoid the unnecessary downloads of Javascripts, CSS, etc

* Avoid bloated websites like NextWeb, Mashable, HuffingtonPost, etc, some of those are 2-4MB per PAGE load