VanguardLH wrote:
lonelydad wrote:
Why can't Microsoft post a notification when they are downloading
updates/upgrades? It would be nice to know why all of a sudden half my
download bandwith disappeared.
Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) will only use spare
bandwidth. If it is using half of your bandwidth means that you were
only using half and the other half would've been unused.
Even more radical - why don't they wait till it is outside of my set active
hours. Then it really wouldn't matter if they take up a majority of my
bandwidth, because I will be in bed sleeping the sleep of the just.
So, are you reporting that active hours aren't obeyed? Did you define
when are your active hours for that computer?
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-c...during-updates
The OS Upgrade no longer uses BITS. You can try the BITSADMIN
utility (likely deprecated) and see what is going on.
bitsadmin /monitor /allusers
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My test case finally started running the 1809 upgrade just now. This is
where I disable DoSvc by setting it to Bypass, and also throttle the BITS
it will end up using for the Upgrade Install.
(Use "download original image")
https://i.postimg.cc/B6Kby0kS/thrott...GPEDIT-MSC.gif
Here, you can see it's only using one connection, even though
the BITS table has room for a couple more. And an interesting result,
is the download is *no slower* than it is with the crappy default method.
Microsoft appears to change the method they use, and uses a "large"
download over the single connection used.
https://i.postimg.cc/4xwnrw30/upgrade-throttled.gif
Whereas, downloading the DVD avoids all of this "puttering around"
to achieve a similar result.
While BITS was doing its single-connection download, my Surf Machine
was still able to surf the Internet without being slowed down. And
that's because the router "fair share" was only having to deal
with single connections from each machine. Rather than the Upgrade
machine machine-gunning the router and "stealing" all the fair-share.
As it's based on connection count and nothing else. "He who opens
the most connections on a home router, wins." That's my experience.
Paul