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Network Kill-Switch #67
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If I made add to this, if you are using the built in VPN app inside of Windows 10 could we have that also shut off along with drivers itself? I could see this solution helping with battery life items and performance. I know I wished a couple of times while working essentially offline I would have turned all networking (Maybe other then bluetooth) off to save battery. |
trying to better understand the exact ask here.
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With that "Network Kill-Switch" -toggle all Internet, WAN and LAN Connections should be shut-down. I don't know what's the best way to achive this, but maybe to disable all NIC's is also a good approach to save battery during that time like @vexvoltage mentioned. |
@Adrian-Grimm, do you have data to prove that disabling the network saves enough battery to really make a difference? screen and processor are the big usage. And if you're hitting network, I would imagine, as a user, you are proactively deciding you need to use the network, regardless of streaming or surfing or getting some NPM packages. |
@Adrian-Grimm What about bluetooth, you can connect to devices. I'm reading this as
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@crutkas, no - I think that will make no big difference in terms of battery consumption, but it could save a small portion. As a fallback approach all IP (UDP/TCP/ICMP) incoming and outgoing connections could be blocked through the os firewall - when the toggle is active. This could then have an extended mode where only one or a few applications are allowed to use connections (save data plan...) Usage for this:
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Merge LauncherUI into master
As addition to the WLAN and Airplane toggle in the sidebar: A Kill-Switch for all Network-Connections for Internet, WAN and LAN (Ethernet, WLAN, Mobile/LTE/UMTS,...)
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