Just like any stage mother, I was excited for Ella’s first day of the new school year. Ella, one of my household helpers, is midway toward a degree in elementary education. In the time of pandemic, she chose online distance learning over modular distance learning. Her access to our home internet is 50 megabits per second (Mbps) with unlimited data. With the number of units cut down to 12 instead of the usual 21, she now consumes 12 hours per week using Zoom, as it is the preferred webconferencing service of her teachers.

So I asked Ella on how her classmates manage their data allocation for wireless connection.

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