metered

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

Don't you actually have to specify that your connection is metered in order to that to work?

That scenario would never happen since P2P updates (a.k.a delivery optimization) won't use metered connections [1].

If paywalls don't work, and ads don't work, some kind of metered-browsing would be a solution.

If you setup the internet connection as metered (available since windows 8) it will not send updates to machines over the internet.

In theory it's pretty great, in practice, with metered connections you're using up the users internet quota and causing a lot of frustration.

As with Windows 8.1, Windows 10 won't automatically download updates or apps if it detects that your PC is using a metered connection.

There is an actual measurable cost to advertisements over a metered data plan.

Oh and I don't remeber but I think you can't set a wired connection as metered.

They also claim to disable P2P if they detect your internet connection is metered (I'm not sure how that's done).

Android and Windows 8.1 both have the ability to mark an arbitrary WiFi network as metered, and many core services as well as third party apps will happily discriminate between unlimited WiFi and metered WiFi/cellular connections.

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.

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.

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.

Oh yes, and (how generous of them!) Microsoft notes that they won't steal bandwidth this way from "metered" connections.

People in general carry certain "memory colors" grass green, brick red, that do not correspond to the metered color of these things.

Metered connections are a per-network setting that you have to set manually, not something they detect automatically.