I don't know that they've completely fixed it, but it's definitely not as bad as it used to be.
On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > *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 <(772)%20564-6800> > > [email protected] > > www.pdmnet.com > > www.floridabroadband.com > > > > > >
