Hacker News Reader

Comment by arthurfm | Hacker News Reader

> 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...

View on HN

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?

They can tell the scent of premium packets

My surface correctly identified Vodafone connection over Wifi and Ethernet as a metered connection without any hassle.

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.

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-interne...

I can tell if you are on a cellphone network.

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).

Reply on news.ycombinator.com