A number of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide internet packages that have data caps.
Going over your data cap often incurs a high fee.
This guide will walk you through what a metered connection does and doesnt do and how to configure one.
Toggle the “Set as metered connection” slider to “On” to configure the network as a metered connection.
What is a metered connection?
A metered connection is a setting for web connection connections in Windows 10.
It reduces the amount of data that Windows and apps downloaded from the Microsoft Store use.
The data usage of third-party apps downloaded from the internet is not affected by this setting.
It is, however, possible to manually download updates still if you want to.
Metered connections also shut down the peer-to-peer Windows update functionality.
This feature uploads updates through your internet connection, to make them available to other computers on the internet.
Disabling this setting with a metered connection reduces the amount of data uploaded.
Live tiles on the start menu may stop updating or reduce how often they update over metered connections.
Finally, some apps may behave differently, over metered connections, reducing or cancelling automatic downloads.
Setting a internet as a metered connection doesnt apply any sort of data allowance or monitoring.
The methods of setting Wi-Fi connections and wired ethernet connections as metered are slightly different.
An ethernet connection can be configured to be a metered connection through the Ethernet page in the options app.
To open that page directly, press the Windows key, bang out Ethernet prefs and hit enter.
you gotta then punch the connection name to fire up the networks configs.
Setting one wired online grid as a metered connection will not affect any other wired networks.
Toggle the Set as metered connection slider to On to configure the data pipe as a metered connection.
To set a Wi-Fi data pipe to be a metered connection you should probably start from the Wi-Fi configs.
To launch the Wi-Fi options, press the Windows key, jot down WiFi options and hit enter.
Click Manage known networks to view all the Wi-Fi networks that your rig is configured to remember.
Click Manage known networks near the top of the Wi-Fi tweaks page to see your known networks.
hit a internet in your list of known networks and then click Properties to manage the connection.
tap on a internet, then click Properties to configure a known Wi-Fi internet.
