What exactly is downloading on my computer while I'm surfing?

[Silver_bacon]

Rockhead does not know what he is talking about.

Anyway, anything you see do, pics, videos, downloading songs, files, email, etc. uses download bandwidth. If you log on to google, you have downloaded something, if you watch a youtube video, you download the video. You also use Upload bandwidth, but it is much less in amount.

You turned off automatic updates, which is good, since it takes up massive bandwidth. But you must make sure that you download the updates occasionally. I would suggest that you do that during you free usage time, which is usually during the late hours of the night.

Who is your satellite provider? Hughes, wildblue, starband, skyway?