On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Jono Bacon <j...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Michael Zanetti < > michael.zane...@canonical.com> wrote: > >> Hi Sergio, >> >> On Tuesday 09 July 2013 12:51:37 Sergio Schvezov wrote: >> > - Network Manager now automatically enables the data connection. >> >> Uh... That sounds scary. At least for people without a data flatrate. >> Afaik >> there is no 3G indicator yet. How do I know if current traffic is routed >> through >> WiFi or 3G data? >> > > When you're connected to Wifi, you're using Wifi. The routing priority is made so that wifi is always preferred since it's "free".
Otherwise you may be connected to 3G and in that case, you'll use 3G. > Agreed, might be best not to switch on by default until at least there is > a switch. > > Can anyone provide an update on when the switch is likely to land? > There is a code branch with updates to the indicator to enable/disable wifi and mobile data. I expect it would be landing soon. However, you can already control the behavior of NetworkManager via nmcli, for instance: nmcli dev disconnect iface /ril_0 # disconnect the modem interface (get offline) nmcli con up id <connection> # connect to the data network (you need to provide the name of the connection[1] [1] The name of the connection to bring up is a /, followed by a set of numbers (your IMEI), followed by a / and "contextX" which is a value specific to connections available from your provider. The list can be seen via the command: nmcli con Regards, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu...@ubuntu.com> Freenode: cyphermox, Jabber: mathieu...@gmail.com 4096R/EE018C93 1967 8F7D 03A1 8F38 732E FF82 C126 33E1 EE01 8C93
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