On Tue, 2015-09-29 at 14:38 -0400, Eric Griffith wrote: > There's also the fact that if > > > the connection is metered then we just ripped through a chunk of > > > their > data. > > > > We only do the auto-refresh on wired or wifi connections. If you > > chose > > to do the manual refresh button on mobile data that's up to the > > user. > > > > Is there a reliable way to detect that though? If I tether via my > phone or > turn my phone into a hotspot it comes up as Ethernet or WiFi, > respectively. > It seems like we are going to run into the same issue that Microsoft > is > where automatic downloads are giving people bill shock. AIUI, NetworkManager is working on more sophisticated detection of tethering, but right now it doesn't have it. Tethered wifi will be treated as an unmetered connection. I think NM does already treat USB tethering as metered. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
