Why Windows 10 might consider a wifi hotspot from as metered connection?

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Kuppikunta

I have seen cases that when people share a wifi hotspot from their phone and connect their pc to it, Windows might think that it's a metered connection and sets the wifi hotspot as metered. This could happen even if the cellular data plan would be unlimited.As far as I know, Windows should by default consider wifi connections as non-metered:On Regedit,HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\DefaultMediaCostWifi = 1Means that by default, Wifi connection is not considered metered.I work as an IT support person and this behavior occasionally causes issues on en

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