One last question, and the most important for me, is how much data does it use? We only have a 2gb a month broadband connection but it's unmetered at night. I know already from reading this thread that there's one default feature I'll have to turn off - this using of your bandwidth to send updates to other users - and I'd also assume that it will use up quite a lot of data to be constantly serving you with ads?
At the moment I use a program called networx to monitor the amount of data traffic used and to keep it reasonable, but does anyone else use this? Could anyone give me a rough estimate of how much data Windows 10 uses (download and upload) just for typical usage (i.e. browsing the internet but not streaming, youtube or anything like that).
There's also the question of the forced updates that I've been reading about. At the moment we tend to do our updates at night, when it's unmetered, but what I've been reading implies that there is much less control over that in Windows 10. Or is that just for security updates - do you have choice of when to download the other types of updates?
One way around some of these problems has always been to set the wifi to connect manually rather than automatically. It's a pain in the arse doing that, because it's much more convenient being always on, but I fear it may be necessary here. Is it possible to set it up like that?
Anyway I suppose the overall question is, does Windows 10 assume that you have unlimited internet, and would it would be wise to avoid it if you don't?
At the moment I use a program called networx to monitor the amount of data traffic used and to keep it reasonable, but does anyone else use this? Could anyone give me a rough estimate of how much data Windows 10 uses (download and upload) just for typical usage (i.e. browsing the internet but not streaming, youtube or anything like that).
There's also the question of the forced updates that I've been reading about. At the moment we tend to do our updates at night, when it's unmetered, but what I've been reading implies that there is much less control over that in Windows 10. Or is that just for security updates - do you have choice of when to download the other types of updates?
One way around some of these problems has always been to set the wifi to connect manually rather than automatically. It's a pain in the arse doing that, because it's much more convenient being always on, but I fear it may be necessary here. Is it possible to set it up like that?
Anyway I suppose the overall question is, does Windows 10 assume that you have unlimited internet, and would it would be wise to avoid it if you don't?
