You certainly know that after the arrival of 3G, then 4G, it is now 5G that is starting to land on our territory. The more recent developments in the internet, the more things you can accomplish with your Doro. It is really convenient! And for people who knew the beginnings of the Internet, it was necessary to switch off their fixed smartphone in order to be able to use the Internet and display an image in several minutes, and up to several days for a film… Now it is a question of only a few minutes for a film in 4K for the lucky ones whose home is equipped with fiber. This will also be the case for you with 5G which will change everything. Despite everything, our internet plans are not completely unlimited plans, and we are often limited to 50, 100 or 200 GB per month for the most high-end plans. It is therefore important, depending on your consumption, to manage it well so as not to end your months with an internet connection at the speed of a Minitel.
This is precisely what we will teach you in this guide, we will learn how to determine a mobile data limit on your Doro. In this context, first of all, we will quickly explain to you in a little more detail the reason why it is important to manage your internet package. Then, the different ways of limit the consumption of your internet data on your Doro.
Why set a mobile data limit on your Doro?
We therefore start this guide by quickly showing you the reason why it is interesting to monitor the mobile data consumption of your Doro. You probably don't know if you use very little mobile internet data up to now or if you have WiFi at your home, however most current 4G plans are limited in time. Data volume and bandwidth (download speed) is greatly reduced once this amount is reached.
It's when you go on weekends or the internet at home is not working and you use your Doro as a mobile access point that you realize that data is consumed particularly quickly ... Watch a few videos or getting lost on social networks are really energy intensive activities and your internet plan may not last long if you plan to do this without being able to use a WiFi connection.
It is in these cases that it may be interesting to use a limitation of the data of your Doro so as not to be surprised and end your month with a particularly slow connection, something to which we are moreover more at all accustomed and that we generally live particularly badly because we are so used to broadband. Downloading a photo can take a few tens of seconds, a few minutes for a loaded web page, and you should not even hope to be able to view a video, even in poor quality ...
How to limit the consumption of mobile data on your Doro?
We now move on to the practical part of this guide, we will explain how to limit the consumption of data from your Doro. Fortunately this technique is very simple and you will not need to be an expert in new technology to control your consumption on the internet.
You will be able to define a data consumption alert threshold to alert you when you exceed a certain consumption. And one limit which when exceeded will block mobile data connections to avoid over consumption. In the event that you wish you can also learn how to save battery on your Doro.
How to determine a mobile data consumption alert threshold on a Doro?
First of the options that we want to present to you, it is simply a prevention technique, it will be used to alert you each time you exceed a first level of data consumption, however without blocking your package. A good way to leave a margin while being informed that you have to start paying attention to keep the package for the rest of the month. Discover below the procedure to follow to define it:
- Go to the “Settings” of your Doro
- After that in the "Connections" menu tap on "Mobile data usage"
- In the parameters of this section, you will be able to set a threshold "Data warning" , you just have to click on it to configure the data volume from which you want to be alerted by notification
How do I set a data consumption blocking limit on a Doro?
In the event that you want to be more radical and you want, after setting a warning, find a technique to completely block your data consumption so as not to use everything, for example, by having launched a non-essential update, the best of the alternatives going to be to set a blocking limit for your internet package. So there is no more risk of consuming everything without realizing it. We advise you to set this limit at 80 or even 90% of your package to be sure to keep enough for essential things:
- Go to the “Connections” menu of your Doro, you will find it in the latter's settings
- In the "Use of mobile data" tab, you can access the settings by clicking on the small cogwheel at the top right of your screen
- All you have to do now is activate first in the event that you have not already done so. "Data limit definition" and then define the data volume to which you want to fix the blocking
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