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Bluetooth tethering on Windows10

connect

  1. Pairing
  2. To open Bluetooth Personal Area Network Device, right click the blootooth icon in the system tray and click Join a Personal Area Network. You can create a shortcut to it where you like.
  3. Right click the icon of your router device and select Connect using then click Access Point

If you use an iphone as your router device, you don't have to tap 'internet sharing' when you start bluetooth tethering.

disconnect

  1. Open Bluetooth Personal Area Network Device
  2. Right click the icon of your router device and click disconnect

data usage limit

When we use wifi on windows, we have configuration for metered connection but we don't generally when blootooth pan.

I heard that it would be possible to limit data usage by editing registry.

  1. run regedit
  2. open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\DefaultMediaCost
  3. get full control of it for administrators
  4. change value of Ethernet to 2
  5. restart windows

This configures also ethernet to metered connection.