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Re:Even when told not to, Windows 10 doesn't stop talking to... by inversionOf on Thursday August 13, 2015 @09:44AM (#10054073)
It's a concern anywhere with caps, which increasingly includes much of the US as well. FWIW I'm in Canada and recently my provider (Cogeco) switching my 120Mbps plan to unlimited data per month, which is nice.

This actually brings up a great point which is that systems need some sort of bandwidth conservation setting. We recently were traveling and had a couple of laptops and pads with us. Having no data connection at the hotel we were at, I enabled tethering on my smartphone.

Last than an hour later I got a warning that they had blown through my 5GB. This wasn't active use, but literally was largely laptops auto downloading patches (they hadn't been turned on in a couple of weeks, backlogging GBs) and browser updates, pads pulling a tonne of updates, etc. It is becoming completely unmanageable.

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Re:Even when told not to, Windows 10 doesn't stop talking to... by pdkl95 on Thursday August 13, 2015 @12:00PM (#10055159)
The problem isn't limited to bandwidth caps and pay-per-byte; bandwidth usage can be a problem anywhere bandwidth is finite. Any heuristic that tries to hide the bandwidth usage based on a single computer can fail when there are other computers using the same network.
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Re:Even when told not to, Windows 10 doesn't stop talking to... by scorpioxy on Thursday August 13, 2015 @11:03AM (#10054715)
That's without setting the connection as a metered connection, right?

Once i saw that option, I immediately set it because I also use my mobile data connection for access.

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