I have a Windows 7 laptop and I have a Samsung Galaxy Verizon phone. Sometimes when traveling I have to use a hotspot from the phone so that I can use the laptop. The problem is that the laptop will eat up my entire bandwidth allowance fast and also the laptop will perform slowly because it needs a lot of bandwidth to feed it. How can I reduce the use of bandwidth by the laptop while still being able to search using Firefox and use Maps. I know that Windows 8 has measuring but I can't find anything like that on Windows 7 any suggestions would be appreciated