[Woodman]

Swoardmaker, there is a very clear option on installation where you can specify if you are on a metered connection. I’m not metered so I haven’t looked to see what it does, but I am guessing there are settings to help deal with this issue.

[VanDeKoik]

For a guy that screams about “FUD”, he should have easily done 2 minutes of research and found that out.

But then again FR needs yet another Win10 post for Linux people to pimp that marginal OS, Old cranks boasting about their old computers running some old version of Windows, and clueless so-called “tech geeks” to scream how “stupid M$” is.

[Swordmaker]

Swoardmaker, there is a very clear option on installation where you can specify if you are on a metered connection. I’m not metered so I haven’t looked to see what it does, but I am guessing there are settings to help deal with this issue.

Yes, there is, but it is not the solution for everyone and you still need to download the updates at sometime, it only delays them.

Enable Metered Connection to Delay Windows 10 Updates

Eric Ravenscraft Filed to: WINDOWS 10 8/11/15 4:30am Enable Metered Connection to Delay Windows 10 Updates

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.

Generally speaking, automatic updates are a pretty good idea. Security updates can happen quickly without much user interaction, and it keeps everyone on the same version of the software. However, sometimes updates can bring new bugs, or the sheer size of the updates can blow through a data cap (if you have one). If you would rather have more of a say in this process, you can enable “Metered connection.”

Windows 10 comes with a feature that allows you to specify that your internet connection is capped, throttled, or handicapped in some way. You may be tethering to your phone, on a public Wi-Fi network, or just have a crappy data cap on your home network. By enabling “Metered connection,” Microsoft will respect that by waiting to force a download. To turn it on, follow these steps:

1. Search in the start menu for “Change Wi-Fi settings”
2. Click Advanced Options.
3. Enable the toggle under “Metered connection.”

   The one major downside to this method is that it only works if your computer is connected via Wi-Fi. For some reason, Windows 10 doesn’t allow you to specify that your connection is metered when connected via ethernet (despite the fact that many home internet connections have data caps).

   However, this should help many typical users. Guiding Tech has a few more suggestions on how to delay updates at the source link below. How to Delay and Block Mandatory Software Updates in Windows 10

Note the sentence I've emphasized in the article above. . . it won't work on computers hooked up by ethernet. That's a bad choice on Microsoft's part. Many users in the boondocks with desktops are hooked up be that means to maximize their speed from a satellite connection.