Netflix has officially announced the mobile data saver feature it's been quietly testing for a while. It also confirmed that its mobile data streams have been capped at 600Kbps. Both are efforts to save your precious capped data.
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Wi-Fi Assist is a cool little feature in iOS 9 where your phone switches over to your cellular network when your Wi-Fi connection is crappy. Unfortunately, some users, including Mike Murphy over on Quartz, are reporting that it's eating through their data plan.
With Windows 10, system updates will now occur regularly in the background. Like Gmail or Facebook, these updates will be automatic and mandatory. If you want to try to delay these updates, enable the "Metered connection" option in Settings.
Good news for video streaming addicts: Telstra has quietly increased data allowances for existing ADSL, ADSL2+, NBN and Cable customers to meet an increase in demand. So how much extra data will customers be getting? That all depends on your plan -- with some lucky customers receiving an additional 500GB per month.
Every time Microsoft releases a new version of Windows, its servers get slammed. To help alleviate this burden, Windows 10 can download updates from other users' computers. The problem is, it can use up your bandwidth and data caps to do so. Here's how to turn it off.
