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PulpoCangrejo
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Yes, this option exists. Along with the default option to allow other computers on the internet get your updates. Use you bandwidth without you knowing about it. This is not a well advertised option buried deep in the Windows Update settings.
But not to worry - it doesn't seem to work.
After calling my provider to investigate my lousy internet, he found that MS was downloading updates and using every bit of my 3 mbs bandwidth. Which is normally fine for pretty heavy video, etc.
There's no indication that it's the source of the problem, unless you think to check in the Windows Update settings.
There's no way to pause it. No way to make it run more in the background. No way to get it to run at night.
In the details section, it doesn't give you the one detail you might like - how big the damn thing is.
So I turned off all my PCs but one and let that update. It took over an hour, but it was successful( KB3172985). Then I turned on 2 other PCs. But they aren't getting the update off of my high speed internal network. They are clogging up the WAN again. One has been stuck on 14% for 30 minutes.
I can live without internet for a day. But what if I was running a business? I'd be screwed. I'd have to spend all day apologizing to my customers.
One more thing:
Windows has a ton of annoying flyout notifications for everything else. Why not one that says
"About to hog your bandwidth for the rest of the day. Sorry!"
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But not to worry - it doesn't seem to work.
After calling my provider to investigate my lousy internet, he found that MS was downloading updates and using every bit of my 3 mbs bandwidth. Which is normally fine for pretty heavy video, etc.
There's no indication that it's the source of the problem, unless you think to check in the Windows Update settings.
There's no way to pause it. No way to make it run more in the background. No way to get it to run at night.
In the details section, it doesn't give you the one detail you might like - how big the damn thing is.
So I turned off all my PCs but one and let that update. It took over an hour, but it was successful( KB3172985). Then I turned on 2 other PCs. But they aren't getting the update off of my high speed internal network. They are clogging up the WAN again. One has been stuck on 14% for 30 minutes.
I can live without internet for a day. But what if I was running a business? I'd be screwed. I'd have to spend all day apologizing to my customers.
One more thing:
Windows has a ton of annoying flyout notifications for everything else. Why not one that says
"About to hog your bandwidth for the rest of the day. Sorry!"
Continue reading...