Qbittorrent: Automatic throttle or disconnect on metered connections

[PauluzzS]

qBittorrent version and Operating System

Windows

What is the problem

When having qbt open on a machine which is on a metered connection, the uploads and downloads continue on max bandwidth

What is the expected behaviour

It would make sense to throttle the bandwidth or stop connecting, when on a metered connection.

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[Sopor]

Have you these enabled?

[Evengard]

This is control of an embedded in qB connection limits. This request is about enabling/disabling theese connection limits in case if the network, to which the PC is connected, is marked as "Metered" in Windows itself.

This is new as of Windows 8.

Please check this and this

I'm not sure (not checked), but maybe theese APIs can help: msdn, some github example.

[HaleTom]

For Linux, here are some resources:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43228973/detect-if-current-connection-is-metered-with-networkmanager
• https://askubuntu.com/questions/711949/set-wifi-as-metered-connection

If I'm connected via my mobile phone's limited data plan, I'd really like that qbittorrent automatically backs off, honouring the 'metered' status.