Thanks scubajwd.
So you're saying that the counter can actually display 45 GB for the "Lifetime Total Transferred" counter?
My thinking was that perhaps the counter rolled over at, say, 10 GB, and then started from zero again (granted, not much of a "lifetime counter" for byte xfer... but I've seen worse programming bugs!). My year usage total based on previous billing data was ~930 MB up till the new December billing started ( <100 MB/mo). Now my Zing's LTX is 2.55 GB, so that's 1.66GB in the current billing period, with 99% of that coming in the period in question. 1.5GB in 2hrs seems entirely possible and likely common even though it's way outside of my "normal" tablet usage.
But I can't see the Zing failing to count >80% of the bytes I'm being billed for this month.
I'm assuming it's a realtime counter not dependent on the outside for counting, yes?
thanks for your responses,
rickbol