Worried About Bandwidth Usage In Windows 8? Meter Your Wireless Connection!

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Wireless networks are starting to sprout up all over the place, giving people a new way to tap into the Internet through waves in the air. Still, carriers love to suck customers’ wallets dry when they exceed the bandwidth agreed upon in their plans. And, to top it off, Windows 8 blurs the line between the Internet and your desktop. It uses up bandwidth for an enormous amount of its operations and applications. You might have your laptop on for an hour and already have used up a large chunk of your bandwidth under this new operating system. In a spot of luck, Microsoft implemented something in Windows 8 that allows you to minimize the damage from using this OS in a stingy network, known as metering.

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