It affects Windows update, and also downloads/updates for Windows
Defender if you're using it.
bp
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On 4/17/2017 10:21 AM, Chuck McCown wrote:
So this is a windows update only knob?
*From:* Bill Prince
*Sent:* Monday, April 17, 2017 11:19 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Windows 10 Updates running wild
It doesn't change the speed. It only affects what/how Windows decides
to feed itself. everything else is normal.
bp
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On 4/17/2017 10:05 AM, Chuck McCown wrote:
So all your browsing, downloading, streaming etc is metered?� What
speed do you give yourself?
�
*From:* Bill Prince
*Sent:* Monday, April 17, 2017 11:02 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Windows 10 Updates running wild
�
Is this the so-called "Creator's Update"?
I have for a long time set all my ethernet connection to "metered"
via a registry hack. I leave the WiFi connection turned off, except
when I want updates to run. It works for me, as it leaves me in
charge of exactly when the updates run.
�
bp
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On 4/17/2017 8:15 AM, Paul McCall wrote:
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 <http://www.pdmnet.com>
www.floridabroadband.com <http://www.floridabroadband.com>
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