Posted on 08/02/2015 6:36:00 PM PDT by WVKayaker
HAVE YOU UPDATED TO WINDOWS 10 AND HAVE A DATA CAP ON YOU INTERNET PLAN THEN YOU MUST READ THIS Windows 10 is using yourbandwidth to offer updates to others Windows 10 uses an individual’s internet connection to share updates with others across the internet.
Microsoft calls the feature Windows Update Delivery Optimisation and says it is designed to help users get updates faster. It is enabled by default in Windows 10 Home and Pro editions. Windows 10 Enterprise and Education have the feature enabled, but only for the local network.
This is the same way that torrents work: A person’s computer is used as part of a peer-to-peer network to deliver updates faster to others.
Considering that Windows 10 updates are mandatory for most users, the move seems to be aimed at helping ease stress on the for the Redmond giant’s servers. The problem for most users is that these uploads will count against their data caps.
Users can disable the Update Delivery Optimisation but the option is buried in the settings menu for Windows Update. Users have to click on “advanced options” and then “choose how updates are received”. In response to criticism, Microsoft defended the feature by saying it “helps people get updates and apps more quickly if they have a limited or unreliable Internet connection”. It said the move “does not slow down your internet connection” as it uses a “limited portion” of idle upload bandwidth.
Microsoft said that delivery optimisation will not download or send personal content and that it only sends “parts” of the update cache.
For users who have ISPs with data caps, it’s worth checking if this feature is enabled.
Users can stop sharing updates on capped connections by setting their connection to metered or disabling the delivery optimisation feature entirely.
ping for Windoze users and interested parties...
Thanks. I just shut this off. My data cap doesn’t need updating someone else.
Linux is looking better and better.
I will upgrade only when I just absolutely have to. I just upgraded from XP to WIN7, and regret it a lot already.
later
It is true that mostly enthusiasts (like me and the other guy) tend to use Linux on the desktop, but everyone and his dog use it in embedded systems and server side.
In May 2014, W3Techs estimated that 67.5% of the top 10 million (according to Alexa) websites run some form of Unix, and Linux is used by at least 57.2% of all those websites which use Unix.--wikipedia
Yawn.
What share of web hosting does Linux have?
Mac also, but DH has a Lenovo. Won’t be ‘’upgrading’’. Zerohedge has a pretty disturbing article up today about it. The Surveillance State Goes Mainstream: Windows 10 Is Watching (& Logging) Everything.
Bill Gates is evil.
Still have XP on one of my putters and won’t upgrade to another system. XP was the best Microsoft has had. Why ruin a good thing?
Unless a racoon, armadillo, skunk, possum, or a fox have a computer, I have nothing to worry about.
I live in the sticks. My internet is via my ATT phone plan and a MiFi hotspot.
No way I won’t disable this when I get windows 10.
Oh, my. . .
this does not increase but would decrease isp data use
Your ISP is you gateway to the Internet..That the WAN
You local network is the PC on the common lan sharing that common ISP WAN connection
so you have 2 or more pc in your house ..old update download would have each pc make it own download from the WAN...so 2 PC x2 downloads .3 PC x3 downloads, ect
new way.. one pc does the download of the update from the Internet.. and then act as the server for the rest...so no matter many.pc yo have at you house..it just the one update download to update all.of them.... so less bandwidth used
I used Ubuntu live for the first time in a couple of years on the relatively new PC. Amazingly it found most things fairly easily.
Guess I will partition off and install for more routine use. Used to know some Linux but haven’t used it much in a few years. I support windoze stuff.
For the third time in four days, I will make the same post; “Thanks, I’ll save this post for later. I’ll be glad to get rid of 8.1 but I think I’ll let 10 soak in with the general public for a while first.”
That “soak” period is becoming longer and longer. I do not have the patience now to go through another round of frustration, research, tweaking, third-party add-ons, and learning to run another host program like I did with my 8.1 mess.
Servers serve hundreds, thousands and sometimes even more clients. Desktops serve one. As the Alexa report stated, the biggest web servers/farms disproportionately run unix/unix derivatives such as Linux.
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