SOLVED Window 10 consuming internet bandwith

[Oladele Matthew]

I just bought a lenovo ideapad 110 running window 10. It consumes all my internet bandwidth even when i am not browsing.

 

[Regedit32]

Hi Oladele,

Windows 10 has a feature which allows you to break down what is using Data on your Network.

• Right-click on Start and select Settings > Network & Internet
• On the left side select Data usage
• Now in main frame, click on View usage details
• If your Network is using both Wi-Fi and Ethernet, then there will be a drop arrow to select one or the other to view the break down of Data usage on the screen.

Are you able to let us know if there is any particular app or service consuming significantly more data that the rest.

Also, you can mitigate data usage a few ways:

• For example, have you set it to be a Metered connection or not?

If set to metered connection, Microsoft will not automatically download updates. You instead, choose when to download them by manually checking for updates. The idea being to control how often you do this, and when you do it, because if you have a metered internet connection [meaning you pay for a certain amount of bandwidth each month], you may need to halt downloading updates to prevent exceeding the limit which can be costly].

Right-click on Start and select Settings > Network & Internet

On left side select Status

In main frame click Change connection properties

Here you can toggle on/off the option Set as metered connection
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• Do you allow Windows updates to be peered or only on your network?

Peering means your update comes from multiple other computers not on your network, which can speed the update up, but it also consumes more data, as while you are online, others can download bits of update from your computer too. When you consider some of the Cumulative updates are nearing 3 GB in size, if you are peering, then you are downloading 3 GB and potentially uploading a similar amount of data.

Right-click on Start and select Settings > Updates & security

On left side select Windows Update

In main frame click Advanced options

Now click Choose how updates are delivered

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• Turn off your automatic app updating.

Windows 10 come with built-in apps [Windows Universal apps] and you may have also installed a few additional third party apps yourself, such as a different web browser for example. All apps on your computer are updated from time to time automatically, but you can turn this off and update manually instead, to help reduce data usage.

Open the Microsoft Store

In the top right side click the Account icon which is just to the left of the search box

Now click on Settings

In the frame that appears you can toggle on/off whether to receive app updates automatically or not.

If you are using third party web browsers, many of them offer add-ons or extensions that can help you manage data usage in the browsing. You could look into that by visiting your browsers Home site, and search for such add-ons or extensions.​

Regards,

Regedit32

 

[Oladele Matthew]

Thanks to Regedit32. Turning off automatic apps upadate seems to have solved the problem.