Metered myopia...
Jun. 30th, 2013 07:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThere's a feature in Windows 8 that lets you flag network connections as being metered (as in, you aren't on an "unlimited" data plan of some kind), and this has the beneficial side-effect of preventing applications (and Windows) from trying to download gobs of data and maybe costing you money. I had run across this a while back when I was in New York, when it took less than a week to run through most of my monthly allotment from Verizon over my iPhone's personal hotspot.
I had read the instructions on how to do this at the office and tried a few minutes ago to set this flag for my dial-up connection, hoping for a beneficial side-effect of a different type, one in which my machine is bit more responsive (my dial-up connection is downloading something—6 MB so far over the past 15 minutes—while it takes about 3 minutes for Semagic to show it's lovely face and about as long for web pages to show up).
Of course, my interpretation of what's going on may be full of holes and whatever it is that's dowloading for all it's worth is not affecting my ability to fetch other data at the same time, but it sure feels that way.
The long and short? There is no such setting for dial-up connections. Why am I not surprised?
Breakfast and so on, shortly.
I had read the instructions on how to do this at the office and tried a few minutes ago to set this flag for my dial-up connection, hoping for a beneficial side-effect of a different type, one in which my machine is bit more responsive (my dial-up connection is downloading something—6 MB so far over the past 15 minutes—while it takes about 3 minutes for Semagic to show it's lovely face and about as long for web pages to show up).
Of course, my interpretation of what's going on may be full of holes and whatever it is that's dowloading for all it's worth is not affecting my ability to fetch other data at the same time, but it sure feels that way.
The long and short? There is no such setting for dial-up connections. Why am I not surprised?
Breakfast and so on, shortly.
