How to limit internet usage to one thing?

I'm using personal hotspot from my iPhone to my computer and whenever I connect to my phone I notice that the data usage goes up even though my computer is completely idle. I disabled automatic updates and deleted some processes from the task manager but it still goes up. How can I limit it to one thing like just surfing the web?

Whenever you are using the phone as a hot sport, that act in itself uses "data". The process of creating a hot spot means that it has to be in touch with the Internet and transfer "data" to be a hot spot.

The only way to avoid that data usage is to piggy back off someone else's signal (or go to a place with free Wi-Fi) rather than creating your own hot spot.

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