Metered connection mode

[Ascarib]

I have PC and laptop, I love to play anywhere but in travel i must use mobile Internet with limit. It sucks that steam likes to download big amount of updates when I'm on this Internet connection.
You should put here option to turn on st like "Metered Connection" in Windows 8, where steam won't update any games and will always ask user when he want to download/upload something to cloud.

[Amethystar]

I absolutely agree on that! I really need something like this.

[🌐ᴢᴈᴇᴇᴋ]

Originally posted by Nuvola di Vapore / Nexodon:

I absolutely agree on that! I really need something like this.

An option for this now exists.

Right click Steam on your system tray
Go to Settings>Downloads

In this section you can
1. Limit updates between _____ and _____ time to ______ KB/s or MB/s
2. Restrict downloads while ingame

Additionally you can pause downloads if you see any active;

by going to Library>Downloads and clicking the pause button [ | | ]

[Ingupin]

Sorry for necrobumping but to me it seems like respecting the OS settings would be the better option as it is much more convenient to the user. Now that the Steam Deck has hit the market, there is a clear demand for this.

[revanmj]

Originally posted by 🌐ᴢᴈᴇᴇᴋ:

An option for this now exists.

Not really - you have to remember to dive into settings to enable it every time when you connect to mobile hotspot and disable it afterwards.

I would expect Steam Deck to have a simple option to simply mark a Wi-Fi network as metered and automatically disabling auto-updates while connected to it.

[Ingupin]

The problem here is two-fold:
a) The option for marking a network as "metered" is only present in the OS(on Steam Deck in desktop mode only).
b) Steam does not respect the OS network setting. Even if connected to a network that is marked as "metered" it will not stop downloading updates.

[o4zloiatrinax]

Bump this bad boi, I need it for the steam deck.

[vred]

Originally posted by o4zloiatrinax:

Bump this bad boi, I need it for the steam deck.

Same here

[zabealgorta]

Let’s make this happen for steam deck please