if you have a Procera box you can limit the Windows Updates so that they don't use more than 25-50% of their entire connection.
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:26 PM, Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote: > I can confirm behavior already observed by other people on this > mailing list, Windows 10 updates behave like torrents and can cripple the > end user by saturating the internet connection with dozens of simultaneous > connections. > > I have 3mbps at home and a Windows update running tonight which has > crippled internet access for the entire household, including the laptop > it's running on. I fixed the rest of the house by putting a limit on the > laptop....the laptop itself is still more or less unusable. > > 1) There's no indication to the user that an update is happening. You > have to go look in the Windows Update settings to see the progress meter. > What happened to the little yellow shield in the taskbar? > > 2) There's no way for the user to limit consumption...at least not that I > can see. There are a couple of ways to stop it from *ever* updating, but > really I want to either schedule it to do updates from 1am-6am, or limit > Windows update to 1mbps. > > As a user I find this poorly thought through by Microsoft. More > importantly, as a network operator how do I protect customers from this? > I'm aware that support staff are receiving more complaints recently where > the customer claims their speeds are slow or that their connection is > non-functional, and I have a feeling some of it must be this windows 10 > crap. Is there a mangle rule that can tag this traffic perhaps? > >
