Desktop: Stop Sync on mobile connection

[goddib]

Hi everyone, I am using the windows desktop client with several nextcloud instances so there is a lot of synching going on. At the same time I'm on the move a lot and use a mobile connection to stay in touch. It would be great if I was able to deactivate snyching when on metered connections (since Windows allows for categorization of such). What do you think?

Cheers, goddib

[michaelstingl]

related: https://github.com/nextcloud/client/issues/27

[keinstein]

Why is this marked as discussion and not as feature request?
It is already implemented in the Android client: https://github.com/nextcloud/android/issues/154
Actually this is not only interesting for Windows users. I'd be glad if it would be possible with Linux, too. I use my computer at home and at work. The latter has a metered internet connection, so I'd like to forbid nextcloud there and resume sync at home automatically.

[goddib]

I suppose not many people find this the most important thing to add, which I do understand.
At the same time it seems like metered connections are here to stay for a while - mobile as well as WiFi connections. Even Microsoft has accepted that and has the "metered" functionality integrated deep into Windows 10. So I believe that it would be a useful feature to add - maybe we should discuss this as a "feature request" to get to a decision more quickly?
In the meantime I resorted to using the commercial tool "TripMode" to stop nextcloud from synching for lack of open source options.

[RGina666]

Would be the same for me - as I'm using my mobile quite often for data. I'd be very thankful not to be forced to rather switsch sync off, every time or switch syn on on the other hand.

[unixfox]

NetworkManager provides information if the current connection is metered (see https://people.freedesktop.org/~lkundrak/nm-docs/nm-dbus-types.html#NMMetered) so IMO this feature may be useful on Linux, too.

[Happyfeet01]

Any News about this Request?

[Schleichmichl]

Same problem. I miss it so desperately! Nextcloud eats up mobile plan when connected via hotspot.
This is a so basic requirement, that lacking of is already a bug...

[camilasan]

The definition of a bug is "feature that does not work as expected". The feature is not there yet, therefore is not a bug but a feature request. The priority of implementing it is also up for debate.

[Schleichmichl]

Yeah, you are so right :-)
But where can I vote for this feature request or at least create it?

[camilasan]

I would say you need keep this issue 'alived' by commenting here, but I would expect that this issue should not be a problem anymore with the Virtual Drive and with the pull request #1453. What do you think?

[RGina666]

unfortunately limiting in terms of time is not really useful for my problem, as I'm using mobile internet unregularly in a mix with "normal" WLAN. Would be great, as Onedrive an co can do, to link it to the network status....

Thanks for all your work :)

[Schleichmichl]

I follow up on RGina666.
The scheduling has totally different use cases.

As usage of the wifi connection is not bound to a given time, the worst case could be to sync just in that time where wifi is used. That would then worsen the data usage, as files are synced that would have been synced already when not using the scheduler.

[esguti]

A good place for this option could be the scheduler menu. In C# the function to get the connection type is GetConnectionCost.

[Ageraluon]

Same here, for me this is a vital feature. Had my nexcloud client eat up my whole plan for the month several times while on the way before noticing. Dropbox, spideroak, etc adhere to the metered connection. Now, I am manually pausing sync before connecting to my mobile hotspot. Whenever I forget however, I am going without mobile internet for the month...
Hope you can get around to implementing this on windows, and keep up the great work, nextclud is a perfect project for everyone wanting to keep control over their data, I have really come to love it! :D

[cscholz]

For me also helpful feature. Specially when OneDrive pops up to ask and nextcloud not.

[isdnfan]

the issue is still there with WIndows Desktop client 3.0.2 - it syncs while OneDrive and Google Drive pause syncing on mobile network.
Please add an option to pause on metered connection (should pause by default) to avoid exceeding mobile plan by sync client.

[Schleichmichl]

My data plan was also eaten up several times. I paused it once I was on metered connection but forgot it to reactivate at home. Then I needed up to date files on the road again and had to sync, which was quite expensive. I hope it is moving up in the backlog. The new UI brings definitely less value than this highly reasonable feature.

[lzs]

I've been looking to see this functionality added too. Even if it isn't about mobile data limits, it can be an unnecessary bandwidth hog and battery drain while on a mobile hotspot.