Have they fixed the problem where they were hammering the queueing\policer with 
several times more traffic than the maximum set to? I haven't heard that 
complaint lately. 

How many TCP connections were they using? 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 




----- Original Message -----

From: "Paul McCall" <[email protected]> 
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2017 10:15:37 AM 
Subject: [AFMUG] Windows 10 Updates running wild 



What are you guys doing to control Windows 10 update from downloading updates 
whenever it wants to? Windows used to have a setting for when it would download 
and install, and now that setting (IF have you have access to the Group Policy 
editor - some Win versions supposedly don') only allows defining when it will 
INSTALL the updates and not when it downloads them. You can make the update 
process manual I think through settings, but customers won't ever update then, 
introducing other issues. So, that isnt a great workaround. You can also set an 
interface to “metered” which means it won’t DL until it gets an unmetered 
connection but that won’t help either. 

Today 3 customers (plus my PC) were killing an AP, all connected to Microsoft 
presumably downloading updates as mine was from that IP. That is what my PC was 
doing when I caught the problem. All customers and myself were connected to the 
same MS IP address. 

Even if customers had access to GPEDIT, and if it had that ability, talking 
customers through that would have been a not fun job for tech support for all 
the Win10 devices out there now. Supposedly, not all versions of Win 10 have 
access to GPEDIT easily. GPEDIT does have a setting for maximum DL for updates 
which helps but that would only slow things down for a loooong time to get 
updaes. Much better to have it do full updates after midnight. 

Was wondering if there was something that could be defined at the customers CPE 
Mikrotik (in place at 95% of our customers) or at the tower Mikrotik. 

There has to be some solution. 

Paul McCall, President 
PDMNet, Inc. / Florida Broadband, Inc. 
658 Old Dixie Highway 
Vero Beach, FL 32962 
772-564-6800 
[email protected] 
www.pdmnet.com 
www.floridabroadband.com 


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