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> If a user is on a metered connection, and "seeding" Windows updates pushes them over their bandwidth cap, then MS is quite literally stealing from them. That

> If a user is on a metered connection, and "seeding" Windows updates pushes them over their bandwidth cap, then MS is quite literally stealing from them. That scenario would never happen since P2P updates (a.k.a delivery optimization) won't use metered connections [1]. [1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-10/windows-update-delivery-optimization-faq http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-10/windows-update...

rosser 11y ago
From the linked page: "If you use a WiFi connection that is metered or capped, make sure that you identify it as a metered connection." The behavior is opt-out: you have to tell Windows you're on a metered connection. Or did you think it would somehow figure that out on its own?
- gingerrr 11y ago
  They can tell the scent of premium packets
- dogma1138 11y ago
  My surface correctly identified Vodafone connection over Wifi and Ethernet as a metered connection without any hassle.
  - jlgaddis 11y ago
    That's great that it correctly detected your connection as metered but to think that it's going to do that perfectly every time is just naive. Even if it only messed up and misidentified a connection as non-metered one time ever, you'd still be pissed off if it was you and it ended up costing you real money.
- arthurfm 11y ago
  It's not opt-out with mobile broadband connections. These are automatically set to metered by default [1]. [1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/metered-internet-connections-frequently-asked-questions http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/metered-interne...
  - lurkinggrue 11y ago
    I can tell if you are on a cellphone network.
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dwild 11y ago
I don't know where you live but here in Canada we have bandwidth cap. If you go beyond that, you pay 2.50$ for every 5 GB (I'm really impress by that price, in the past we were billed 8$ for every GB, up to like 10 GB, at that point you could use as much as you wanted).

rosser 11y ago

From the linked page: "If you use a WiFi connection that is metered or capped, make sure that you identify it as a metered connection." The behavior is opt-out: you have to tell Windows you're on a metered connection. Or did you think it would somehow figure that out on its own?

gingerrr 11y ago
They can tell the scent of premium packets
dogma1138 11y ago
My surface correctly identified Vodafone connection over Wifi and Ethernet as a metered connection without any hassle.
- jlgaddis 11y ago
  That's great that it correctly detected your connection as metered but to think that it's going to do that perfectly every time is just naive. Even if it only messed up and misidentified a connection as non-metered one time ever, you'd still be pissed off if it was you and it ended up costing you real money.
arthurfm 11y ago
It's not opt-out with mobile broadband connections. These are automatically set to metered by default [1]. [1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/metered-internet-connections-frequently-asked-questions http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/metered-interne...
- lurkinggrue 11y ago
  I can tell if you are on a cellphone network.

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dwild 11y ago

I don't know where you live but here in Canada we have bandwidth cap. If you go beyond that, you pay 2.50$ for every 5 GB (I'm really impress by that price, in the past we were billed 8$ for every GB, up to like 10 GB, at that point you could use as much as you wanted).