GrtArtiste wrote in
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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 have a 5mb/500kb DSL line. I started this post last night when I
noticed a big download going on, and said half because it appeared to be
half on the network monitoring screen I always have up. Now that you
mention it, the screen is set to display 7mbs max, so roughly half of
that would be somewhere around 3.5mbs to 4mbs, which is a larger
percentage than half. My point is that I have had times where I was
already using a good portion of my bandwidth for some other purpose, like
streaming a video. Then Microsoft kicks in, and all of a sudden my video
isn't streaming like it should.

It wouldn't take that much to implement. When my turn comes up in the
lottery, just ping my system and get my current active hours. If the time
is outside of those hours, just go ahead and download. If I am still in
my active zone, mark my download as pending with a start after marker.
Then whenever the system finishes a download they can check the pending
queue, and start sending to the first system on the list that qualifies.
After all, they are already checking my system for anything that would
disqualify me from getting the download, like the video problems with
1809. It shouldn't have a major impact on their download process, since
they have enough systems to download to to keep their effort going.