Paul wrote in :

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


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

I know you explained what your were doing a while back on a similar
thread, but could you repeat it for those of us who didn't save your
answer that time?