Is Windows Updates having problems right now?

Hello.

Is it me or is Windows Update having problems right now in connecting
and downloading? I see this on two different 64-bit W7 EE SP1 machines
and Internet connections.

Thank you in advance.
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On 19/01/2016 22:15, Ant wrote:
Hello.

Is it me or is Windows Update having problems right now in connecting
and downloading? I see this on two different 64-bit W7 EE SP1 machines
and Internet connections.

Thank you in advance.

It is you. You have a dodgy ISP blocking your Internet connections.

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Good Guy wrote:
You have a dodgy ISP blocking your Internet connections.

Not necessarily.

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On 19/01/2016 22:55, Mike Easter wrote:
Good Guy wrote:
You have a dodgy ISP blocking your Internet connections.

Not necessarily.

Then why don't you for ****s sake give him the answer. I don't have any
problems here; Only he has the problem and now you seem to have the
probem as well despite you not using Windows. Clearly this is not a
windows problems, only the Internet connection problem as far as I can
see. These people have installed all sorts of utilities because they
have been brain washed by that Canadian "small boys abuser" that
Microsoft is spying so they do all sorts of things to block Microsoft sites.

Proper [default configurations] windows users don't have this problem.

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Ant wrote:
Is it me or is Windows Update having problems right now in connecting
and downloading?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...troubleshooter
Open the Windows Update troubleshooter

Also http://www.digitaltrends.com/computi...-isnt-working/
A troubleshooting guide for fixing Windows Update

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On 1/19/16 3:15 PM, Ant wrote:
Hello.

Is it me or is Windows Update having problems right now in connecting
and downloading? I see this on two different 64-bit W7 EE SP1 machines
and Internet connections.

Thank you in advance.

Despite Good Guy's smart aleck shenanigans...

I suspect so. Couldn't get one machine to download, nor would WSUS
Offline connect. Don't know if both were tied to 3 .dlls that were
corrupted or missing from the system.


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On 20/01/16 01:51, Ken Springer wrote:

Couldn't get one machine to download,
Am I surprised especially if the name is Ken Springer? No, not all.
It's expected of an octogenarian .

nor would WSUS Offline connect. Don't know if both were tied to 3
.dlls that were corrupted or missing from the system.


I told you so. You seem to be messing around with your machine! I have
told you not to delete any files without asking us but you seem to be so
impatient that you have delete something from the machine almost daily.
Is it time for you to go to Allah? We could give you a good send off.
We are very generous with people like you.

Ant wrote on 01/19/2016 5:15 PM:
Hello.

Is it me or is Windows Update having problems right now in connecting
and downloading? I see this on two different 64-bit W7 EE SP1 machines
and Internet connections.

Thank you in advance.

Similar on the 19th mid afternoon when I ran WU manually. Cleared up by
the evening.

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Works fine on my windows 7 Professional machines.


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Hello.

Is it me or is Windows Update having problems right now in connecting
and downloading? I see this on two different 64-bit W7 EE SP1 machines
and Internet connections.

Thank you in advance.
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Running WIN 8.1, nothing deleted, nothing blocked - never had huge
problems with WU - until a about 2 weeks ago. Now, on a regular basis,
getting updates is a PITA - Error codes out the wazoo - answer seems
to be BITS or DEP. I run the fixit program, things are OK for a few
days, then out the window they go - again.

And just in case - scanned for virii, malware, in fact anything,
shows up clean.




On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 16:15:02 -0600, (Ant) wrote:

Hello.

Is it me or is Windows Update having problems right now in connecting
and downloading? I see this on two different 64-bit W7 EE SP1 machines
and Internet connections.

Thank you in advance.

On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 19:26:38 +1100, wrote:

Running WIN 8.1, nothing deleted, nothing blocked - never had huge
problems with WU - until a about 2 weeks ago. Now, on a regular basis,
getting updates is a PITA - Error codes out the wazoo - answer seems
to be BITS or DEP. I run the fixit program, things are OK for a few
days, then out the window they go - again.

And just in case - scanned for virii, malware, in fact anything,
shows up clean.

Windows 8.1 to fix WU use the the command:

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

Ant wrote:
Hello.

Is it me or is Windows Update having problems right now in connecting
and downloading? I see this on two different 64-bit W7 EE SP1 machines
and Internet connections.

Thank you in advance.

I'll add a data point from yesterday. This is not a failure
as such. Now, I have a pathetic Internet connection, which
downloads at 312KB per second. I go to get a 5.8GB DVD from
Microsoft, and the Firefox download window says the time to
completion is "1 day, x hours". I look at the download rate,
and its only 50KB or so, and varying quite a bit. I use the
usual method, of dropping the connection and starting another,
and the rate doesn't change.

I use a tool which makes multiple connections, set it
to eight connections, fully expecting the server to
reject the embraces of such tools. But instead,
the connections are accepted. Using a setting of 8
connections, I'm able to fill my tiny pipe, so the Microsoft
download no longer says "1 day..." but something like five or six
hours.

The ISO had an available checksum, so I could verify it
was indeed, a complete file.

I even tried the Powershell trick, to harness BITS to
do the download, and the download did not go any faster
when done that way. Which was another test I carried out,
before reaching for heavy artillery.

And if this is resource conservation, it only appears
to be approximate and not as "precise" as some companies
manage to do on their servers.

Paul

Justin Tyme wrote on 01/20/2016 1:31 PM:
On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 19:26:38 +1100, wrote:

Running WIN 8.1, nothing deleted, nothing blocked - never had huge
problems with WU - until a about 2 weeks ago. Now, on a regular basis,
getting updates is a PITA - Error codes out the wazoo - answer seems
to be BITS or DEP. I run the fixit program, things are OK for a few
days, then out the window they go - again.

And just in case - scanned for virii, malware, in fact anything,
shows up clean.

Windows 8.1 to fix WU use the the command:

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth


Never run the /RestoreHealth command on Windows 8x without having
already ran the /ScanHealth and /CheckHealth command line options. If
these two don't report a components store corruption or a repairable
component store then use the MSFT provided FixIt for Windows Update.

IF the CheckHealth option reports the image as non-repairable then
RestoreHealth will yield nothing. If not repairable, reinstall or reset
Windows 8x.

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Is it me or is Windows Update having problems right now in connecting
and downloading? I see this on two different 64-bit W7 EE SP1 machines
and Internet connections.

Thank you in advance.

It is you. You have a dodgy ISP blocking your Internet connections.

I did mention I tried multiple ISPs.
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FYI. It worked again after 4:30 PM PST on that day. I guess the servers
were being hammered or something.


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Hello.

Is it me or is Windows Update having problems right now in connecting
and downloading? I see this on two different 64-bit W7 EE SP1 machines
and Internet connections.

Thank you in advance.

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