Set Ethernet Connection as Metered or Unmetered in Windows 10  

could somebody make an automated cmd/powershell script for the step 4-6?

@Brink, do you think it is useful to have a CMD script that allows of toggling between "metered" and "unmetered" without taking the steps described in Option Two?

satrianiboys said:

could somebody make an automated cmd/powershell script for the step 4-6?

I can.

Brink said:

Possibly, restart some service or the network adapter instead of the computer??

The following will restart the "Network Connections" service.
net stop Netman & net start Netman

The following will restart the "Ethernet" adapter.
netsh interface set interface name="Ethernet" admin="disabled" & netsh interface set interface name="Ethernet" admin="enabled"

However, I don't know a way to check whether the new setting has really taken effect. Do you?

Brink said:

If you have anything that wouldn't automatically download over a metered connection would be one way, but that's another thing that would have to be determined.

I don't know how to determine that.
The following shows that my metered connection prevented the downloading.


When I clicked on the "Download" button, it started downloading and installing as shown below.




Now the language pack has been successfully installed.

@Brink, I have just restored Windows to a point before I clicked on "Download". Now it is showing the following message again. Please tell me what I should do step by step. I will try again tomorrow.

Brink said:

I was just wonder which method you used to set it as a metered connection so I could test on my system as well to help confirm.

Click here to download "Metered or unmetered.zip".
Just double-click on "Metered or unmetered.cmd", which will get highest privileges via PowerRun so as to modify the DWORD value data. On completion, manually run the following to restart the "Network Connections" service.
net stop Netman & net start Netman