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Old February 23rd 19, 11:08 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Default I just had a radical idea

GrtArtiste wrote:
On 2/23/2019 12:05 AM, 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.

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.

Just a thought, but to paraphrase a popular song, "Gee it would be
nice if
you did."


Because I'm curious...how much bandwidth is "half"?

My last updates have been using every last bit of my 25MB DSL. It also
hogs all of my measly 1.4 upload whenever anything gets sent to One Drive.

GrtArtiste


I wonder if there are any definitive articles explaining
how it's supposed to work.

The problem is, home routers are sensitive to "connection count".
When a Win10 machine opens 20 connections, it "hogs" the router.
It squeezes out a machine which is just using its web browser.

Yet, the Win10 machine is supposed to have some notion of bandwidth.
But bandwidth is *not* the problem. You can have two computers
downloading a DVD, and if each machine uses one connection for
the job, they each get 50% of link.

Now, even if you set the "bandwidth" on one machine to some
lesser number, it can still use an excess of connections
to foul up the usability of the home router for other
people in the house.

Bandwidth as a knob to twiddle is *not* the answer.
There's more to it.

And I just got my test case to run, the one I've been
waiting months for it to take off. And when I force fed
it the Feb 2019 Patch Tuesday, finally it started the Upgrade
download after that. And it did it with my modified BITS settings,
and it behaved nicely and the download went just as
fast without being a pig about it. It downloaded the whole
Upgrade, using no more than one connection. And it ran at
83% link while doing it. If I were to Web Surf on the other
machine, the transfer rate on the Win10 machine would
momentarily drop. In other words, fairly sharing my
home router.

Paul
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