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Doesn'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 a

• yebyen 9y ago
  So 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 ago
    No. 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.