https://www.verboon.info/tags/metered-network/Recent content in Metered-Network on Anything About ITHugoen-usWed, 17 Oct 2012 21:26:17 +0000https://www.verboon.info/2012/10/windows-8metered-connections/Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:26:17 +0000https://www.verboon.info/2012/10/windows-8metered-connections/<p>One of the new features in Windows 8 is that we can configure WLAN and WWAN cost settings. In the Windows UI this is called a metered connection.</p> <p> <img src="images/image_thumb3.png" alt="image"> </p> <p>Why are these settings important? Well, when a Network is configured to be a Metered Connection, Windows will make several changes to the way that it uses the network to reduce overall network traffic through that connection, including the following:</p> <ul> <li> <p>·Only Critical Windows Updates are downloaded.</p>