Though the data prices in India is THE CHEAPEST IN WORLD, the daily data limit has become a problem for professionals. India offers the cheapest data with the average rate of 7 Rs/GB, as per the latest report by cable.co.uk. But after the COVID – 19 pandemic situation, more and more professionals are working from home. This has helped the companies to sustain operations. However, the employees are facing problems of slow internet connections and daily data limit.
Two BIG problems…
More people use mobile internet connection during lockdown, leading to slow internet speed.
Many apps consume data simultaneously, leading more consumption of data in short time.
IConflux has brought to you the solution to internet problems in lockdown. In this blog, we’ll share how you can stop unnecessary data usage and save bandwidth on your mobile internet.
Restrict data usage of apps in windows computer
When you connect your computer to mobile internet connection, by default, all the apps in your computer starts accessing that connection. Some apps start updating themselves, some start syncing local data with the cloud, and some just keep on doing ‘Outbound Connections’ without your knowledge. Ultimately, they al lead to slow internet speed and faster consumption of data.
You can stop that!
How?
Here is the step by step solution…
You can open the menu and search for Windows Defender in the search bar, to open the desktop app. This app will require Administrator Permissions so make sure you have it.
Usually the ‘Action’ options from the menu is already open at the right side of dialogue box. But you can also open is by clicking on ‘Properties’ option in drop-down menu of ‘Action’ icon.
In the ‘Properties’ dialogue box, you can see many tabs such as – Domain Profile, Private Profile, Public Profile, and IPsec Settings. Open the ‘Public Profile’ tab here.
If the ‘Firewall State’ is ON, there will be two options – Inbound Connections and Outbound Connections. Go to ‘Outbound Connections’ and select BLOCK.
Now the firewall will block every outbound connection by the apps in your computer. This will mean it will also block Browser such as Chrome and essential WFH apps such as Skype or your Office App. You need to allow certain apps to make outbound connection through firewall. Here is how you can do it…
You can go back to the ‘WINDOWS DEFENDER FIREWALL WITH ADVANCED SECURITY’ app. You can see the ‘Outbound Rules’ option on the left side menu or you can scroll down to the ‘View and create new firewall rules’ section. Click on ‘Outbound Rules’.
How to add New Outbound Rule for the apps/ programs that you want to allow:
This way you can allow only selected apps to make outbound application and save your data. This is the simplest way to use Windows Firewall and manage your data usage while you are working in limited internet connection such as mobile internet or public WIFI. IConfux is also ‘Working From Home’ and we are always here to help other people in doing that easily. Share this information with your friends and colleagues, who need this badly! Visit our blog to read more such blogs by our team of experts.
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