As you probably know, there was first 3G, then 4G, now 5G is starting to land on our territory. The more the developments of the internet evolve, the more you can achieve with the help of your Huawei P10. It is particularly convenient! And for people who had the chance to test the first versions of the web, it was mandatory to switch off their landline to be able to use the Internet and download an image in several minutes, and up to several days for a film ... Now it only takes a few minutes for a film in 4K for the lucky ones whose accommodation is equipped with fiber. This will also be the case for you with 5G which will turn everything upside down. Despite everything, our internet plans are not really unlimited plans, and we are generally limited to 50, 100 or 200 GB per month for the most expensive plans. It is therefore important, depending on your consumption, to manage it well so as not to end your months with an internet connection at the speed of a Minitel.
This is precisely what we will teach you today, we will learn the method to determine a mobile data limit on your Huawei P10. To do this, first of all, we will quickly teach you a little more in detail why it is important to manage your internet plan. Then, the different ways of limit the consumption of your internet data on your Huawei P10.
For what reasons should you determine a mobile data limit on your Huawei P10?
We start this guide by quickly explaining to you the reason why it is interesting to control the mobile data consumption of your Huawei P10. You probably don't know this if you only use mobile internet data so far or if you have WiFi in your home, but most current 4G plans are limited. in volume of files and bandwidth (download speed) is significantly reduced once you exceed this volume.
It is when we go on weekends or when the internet at home does not work and we use our Huawei P10 for connection sharing that we realize that the data is consumed particularly quickly ... Watch some Video clips or getting lost on social networks are particularly greedy activities and your internet plan may not last long if you plan to do this all the time.
It is mainly for this type of situation that it can be interesting to use a limitation of the data of your Huawei P10 so as not to be surprised and end up with an ultra slow connection, something to which we are moreover more at all used to and that we live particularly badly most of the time because we are so used to broadband. Loading an image can take several tens of seconds, several minutes for a loaded web page, and you should not even hope to be able to view a video, even in poor quality ...
The method to limit the consumption of mobile data on your Huawei P10?
We now move on to the practical part of this guide, we will teach you how to limit the internet data consumption of your Huawei P10. Fortunately this manipulation is very easy and you will not need to be an expert in new technology to manage your consumption on the internet.
You can define a data consumption alert threshold to alert you when you exceed a certain consumption. And one limit which when exceeded will block mobile data connections to avoid over consumption. If you wish you can furthermore discover how to save battery on your Huawei P10.
How to determine a mobile data consumption alert threshold on a Huawei P10?
First of the options we want to show you, it's just a prevention technique, it will be used to alert you when you exceed a first threshold of internet data consumption, however, without blocking your plan. A good way to leave a margin while being warned that you will have to start paying attention to keep the package for the rest of the month. D2Discover below the procedure to follow to define it:
- Go to the “Settings” of your Huawei P10
- And then in the "Connections" menu click on "Use of mobile data"
- In the parameters of this tab, you will be able to choose a threshold "Data warning" , just click on it to set the data volume from which you want to receive your notification
How to set a file consumption block limit on a Huawei P10?
If you want to be more radical and you want, after setting a warning, find a way to completely block your data consumption so as not to use everything, for example, by having started the download of a non-essential update, the best solution going to be to determine a blocking limit for your internet package. Therefore more risk of consuming everything without realizing it. We suggest that you set this limit at 80 or even 90% of your plan to make sure you keep enough for essential things:
- Access the “Connections” menu of your Huawei P10, you will find it in the latter's settings
- In the "Use of mobile data" tab, you can access the settings by clicking on the small cogwheel at the top right of your screen
- You will only now have to activate first in the event that it is not already done "Data limit definition" and then define the data volume to which you want to fix the blocking
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