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Bug 725945 - Allow marking a wi-fi connection as "3g hotspot"
Allow marking a wi-fi connection as "3g hotspot"
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 741725
Product: NetworkManager
Classification: Platform
Component: Wi-Fi
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: NetworkManager maintainer(s)
NetworkManager maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-03-08 17:04 UTC by Giovanni Campagna
Modified: 2016-09-30 07:14 UTC
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Description Giovanni Campagna 2014-03-08 17:04:49 UTC
A lot of applications check if the current connection is 3g, and restrict background data transfers, on the assumption that 3g data plans are limited and expensive.
With a 3g-wifi bridge though this distinction blurs, and I end up with packagekit happily downloading hundreds of MBs in the background and draining my data plan every day. Not good.

Android as a feature that marks a wifi connection as "mobile hotspot", which restricts background data and warns for large transfers. NetworkManager could have a similar tag for wi-fi connections (or really any connection), and apps would look for it.

This looks superficially similar to bug 723906, but in practice it's different. Here the tag would be applied by the user, knowing his data plan and whether large downloads are appropriate or not.
Comment 1 Beniamino Galvani 2016-09-30 07:14:56 UTC
Connections can now be marked as 'metered' and the value can be set statically or auto-detected; see bug 741725.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 741725 ***