For some reason since getting my new laptop and windows 8 my Internet data usage has skyrocketed. Is it something with the start page and/or apps or something else? All I know is, I never used to get close to reaching my 5gb limit but since windows 8 I've gone WAY over. When I look at my Internet bill, before I got windows 8 I never had anything over 100mb show up, but starting the day I started using 8 I've had from 100-800mb(!!) show up. Help is appreciated! I have two more days before I can take the laptop back and if I can't figure this out I'm buying something with an older version of windows.
Everyone keeps complaining about this same problem, you are the third one this week. Brink's tutorial will show you how to set the metered connections.
You can also go hit the windows key plus Q to get to the Apps page, find task manager, then the App History tab, it will show you the network usage history of your apps.
I think we concluded that the live tile apps, many of which are turned on by default, are consuming bandwidth at a fairly substantial rate but it's not in the GB amount from what I saw, although there may be an underlying cause involved.
I guess that was one power band width saving feature they didn't think about and for some reason they enabled all those live tiles by default.