Getting live Data from Excel into Power BI

Hi Guys,

Apologies if this has been asked a thousand times, is there a way to get a live dataset from out of Excel into Power BI? The fastest refresh I can get is hourly when I'm using a personal gateway, is there any method to making as real time as possible?

I know that you can increase the number of schedule refreshes but unfortunately upgrading to premium is not an option due to the cost of it.

Any help/guidance will be much appreciated.

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