If you have upgraded your Microsoft Windows operating system to the latest Windows 10, and found out that your computer is taking up a lot of your Internet bandwidth and consuming a lot of your data usage, there are 2 settings for you to mitigate this problem.
The first setting is to disable peer-to-peer sharing of Windows Update files and Windows apps that you have downloaded in your computer with other MS Windows 10 computers in the Internet.
Go to Start > Settings > Update & Security.
Then, go to
Windows Update and click on "
Advanced options".
Inside
Advanced Options, click on "
Choose how updates are delivered".
In the next screen about Update from more than one place, you can either set the option "when this is turned on, your PC may also send parts of previously downloaded Windows updates and apps to PCs on your local network, or PCs on the Internet, depending on what's selected below.' to
OFF, or if you want to share with PCs within your local network but not across the Internet, leave it as
ON and select "
PCs on my local network".
If you leave the option to be the default "
PCs on my local network, and PCs on the Internet", many computers from the Internet will just swarm in and suck off your Internet bandwidth, causing your computer and your Internet link to become slow, and if your Internet line is on quota usage, this will also consume up your data plan within a short period of time.
To further mitigate the Internet data usage, the second setting is to tell Windows that your Internet connection is metered connection. This will prevent background processes and Windows apps use up your Internet link to sync information and provide real time updates to you.
Go to
Start > Settings > Network & Internet.
Then click on "
Advanced options" under
Wi-Fi screen.
Set the
Metered Connection to
ON.
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