Just as long as it finished before the next one started. ;-) I think that's some of what I'm getting from the people I talk to is a desire to understand where the current process is failing. Not so much in adding additional functionality, but in fixing what's already there.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mathew Howard" <[email protected]> To: "af" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 9:47:25 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Microsoft Updates Thrashing Connections Yep... seems to me Microsoft could easily make the problem go away... I can't see why it would make a bit of difference if the majority of the updates took a few weeks to download. Seems to me like it would be better for pretty much everyone involved. On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Adam Moffett < [email protected] > wrote: Limelight. I have a 10MB pcap file. It's not hard to crush a 3mb connection though, so I'm not sure how important this case is going to be. I wish msoft's updater would look at average throughput over the first 5 minutes of an update, then limit itself to half of that. If they did that, I would never even know the updates were running. Or just limit non-critical updates to 128kbps. It might take 10 weeks to finish, but would I really care? Or for Pete's sake just let me configure a limit of my choosing. Anyway, I do appreciate you taking the effort to look for answers at the CDN level. Just seems to me that Microsoft could easily make the problem not exist. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Mike Hammett" < [email protected] > To: [email protected] Sent: 7/12/2017 8:59:28 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Microsoft Updates Thrashing Connections <blockquote> Oh, that's unlikely to be of significant help, but I can check. What is the CDN it's connected to? ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP From: "Adam Moffett" < [email protected] > To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 7:55:04 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Microsoft Updates Thrashing Connections Windows update is using my entire 3mbps connection right at this moment. I have a pcap, but it's from my side and in this case i don't have access to the provider side. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Mike Hammett" < [email protected] > To: [email protected] Sent: 7/11/2017 8:25:28 AM Subject: [AFMUG] Microsoft Updates Thrashing Connections <blockquote> It's Patch Tuesday, so I figured I'd pop in to remind people that have issues with Microsoft Updates to get packet captures of the problems at least one level upstream of whatever device is doing the rate limiting. When you have them, let me know so we can coordinate with whichever CDN and Microsoft to look into why it is happening. We're specifically looking for times when there are dozens of TCP connections open for the transfer or when the CDN is ignoring TCP norms and sending more bits than the customer is limited to. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP </blockquote> </blockquote>
