Hotspot Downstream Conservation

I have an unlimited data plan on two devices with Verizon Wireless. But, the unlimited data with high speed bandwith only applies to my cellular devices. However, I have to use my "mobile hotspot" as the laptop's primary internet connection.  It only has a 15 gigabytes downstream before Verizon Wireless downgrades my speed on it until the next billing cycle.

The files on my cloud services are huge and routinely syncronize.  I've gone beyond 15GB inside of a week.  So I'm uninstalling the Dropbox, One drive and Google's backup and sync. These are still necessary services, so what I'm going to do is tether my devices to my laptop. I can gain access from the laptop to their file systems via the tether. One once done, those services will reside on those devices were the band with remains at top speeds.

There is another thing that could be problematic, but I don't want to write about for the moment.

Hiking & Trail Agency Ical's

One suggestion that I have for trail agencies is that they switch their website calendars to something like Google, or Yahoo for instance that embeds to the webpage.  Then restrict access to a number of people who can post to it.  But with the services that I just mentioned, they can have Ical address.  And end users can subscribe to the trail agency's calendar and it will appear on their own.

The advantage to doing this is that instead of having to go to the agency's website to check for an event, this information comes to them.  Furthermore, those with smartphones can access this as well.  These are business devices and they are compelled to set up a service anyways.  If something goes wrong with the phone, they won't loose the dates that they programmed into the calendar.  But these apps can be set to synchronize with the calendar on-line at specified intervals.  So even if the hiker looses data cellular signal, they'll still probably have the event and maybe the opportunity to walk into it and participate.