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I'd love a "profiling firewall", so to speak. I hate it when tethering when iTunes downloads a 500mb update without telling me. In general, your Laptop has no
by carlio 13y ago
I'd love a "profiling firewall", so to speak. I hate it when tethering when iTunes downloads a 500mb update without telling me.
In general, your Laptop has no idea that it's tethered and therefore data is more scarce than normal. Something that flips between "ok go for it" and "restrict these apps" would be nice, especially if it were automatic.
- nobrains 13y agoYes. I haven't thought about laptops/desktops OSes yet, but atleast in phones I should be able to mark a WIFI connection as "treat-as-data-connection" so that the OS obeys the background data rules for the OS and the applications.
- sborsje 13y agoAndroid uses a DHCP option for this: http://www.lorier.net/docs/android-metered http://www.lorier.net/docs/android-metered
- neil_s 13y agoI know Windows 8 contains an option to avoid downloading updates on 'Metered connections', which is basically this. I don't know if 3rd party apps can access and obey this setting though.