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Phones are smart enough to know that shared networks are mobile behind the scenes and treat them as metered data too. You have to go into the wifi settings to d
by marcan_42 6y ago
Phones are smart enough to know that shared networks are mobile behind the scenes and treat them as metered data too. You have to go into the wifi settings to disable that feature and force it as unmetered (how that works and whether you can even do it depends on the phone vendor...)
- kovek 6y agoIt is possible to detect but it’s not necessarily detected by most OS features or most apps.
- jjnoakes 6y agoI'm curious, how does a phone know the WiFi is metered?
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- bowmessage 6y agoI believe this is what the comment is referencing: https://android.stackexchange.com/a/220981 https://android.stackexchange.com/a/220981
- Namidairo 6y agoThere's also the Microsoft probe/beacon extension that exists. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/mobilebroadband/network-cost-information-element https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/mo... I don't know what iOS is doing, as they still didn't have proper data metering and limiting the last time I checked.