WIFI Sprint Hotspot. Watch out!

I was stuck in Oklahomo City over the Thanksgiving holiday and was there for 5 days. I have a Sprint WIFI hotspot and was told that if nobody was connected it used no data. WRONG!!! This is one of the first times I just left the hotspot on even though my laptop was only on during the day reading email and THIS forum. I have a 6 gig limit and hit it. I never ever go over 4 gig so I did an experiment. I wrote down my usage and went to bed and when I woke up I had used hundreds of megabytes doing nothing!

So, they were wrong when they told me it uses no data at all. Be warned, shut off your device when your not using it.

 

Yes, I did verify it with the Sprint Website. You can connect to the hotspot and bring up a manager window and it shows the usage. Then you can click on the Sprint website within there to see the real usage and their pretty much the same.

 

My laptop was turned off and I watched it racking up data.

 

No. I was in another state and turned it on and watched it. This isn't my phone as a hotspot. I have a separate device with a display and you can watch it.

 

I like Sprint. I've been with them since cell phones came out. Now that I shut off my hotspot everything is back to normal. Just lesson learned.