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Why don't you set your connection to metered then?
by poizan42 9y ago
Why don't you set your connection to metered then?
- KMag 9y agoI think the OP is saying they are on a metered connection, and ran out of quota, so they had to go pony up more money in order to be able to finish their studies.
- poizan42 9y agoYes clearly, but they should set it as metered in Windows, like here: https://i.imgur.com/Y71LI5F.png https://i.imgur.com/Y71LI5F.png
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- darklajid 9y agoDoesn't always help. Co-worker used my hotspot, Windows force-downloaded updates. How do I know? I was roaming and the data plan ran out, we caught it in the act. Metered!
- yebyen 9y agoSo your friend connected to a WiFi network and didn't tell Windows that it was metered... and Windows assumed it wasn't metered. This is what they are trying to explain. There is a way to tell Windows that the network is metered. If you are connected through a Bluetooth link to a cell phone, Windows will probably assume that it is tethered to a phone and therefore metered. Likewise, WiFi connections are probably assumed to be unmetered, for better or worse. But you can tell Windows that a given network connection is metered. (I am not a Windows user 98% of the time and I find this behavior annoying too, FWIW.)
- darklajid 9y agoNo. He connected, the first thing I did (after giving him the passphrase), was personally setting the connection to metered myself. That was what I tried to imply with my "Metered!" at the end of my comment. Otherwise it wouldn't make sense to complain in the first place.. He didn't change it back. My quota was blown an hour later (I don't recall how much data I had left, but it was hundreds of MB). In spite of it being set to metered seconds after connecting to the hotspot.