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.
This could make BitTorrent look like the Virus Distribution Amateur Hour. All somebody has to do is mess with the MD5 sums (or whatever digest Microsoft uses to validate the updates) and they have a distribution network that prior generations of virus hackers could only dream about.
Dude, you forgot squirrels. Those sucker aee evil and tricky.
MS-DOS was pretty solid.
Wow, at least 2 articles tonite about how MS/win 10 is either violating your privacy by default, or turning your PC into a torrent server without your knowledge.
“I use a Mac, but thought this should be shared with those who may use Windoze 10! “
People who continue to use PC’s are the same as people who own British cars. They also have to have at least two so they can hopefully have one that works, and they love to take the time to work on the one that isn’t running. And the kicker is that they have to buy software from a bunch of crooks in Redmond,WA.
Thanks you!
True, but I still can’t stand him. (People who read Metropolitan Home magazine in 1984/ 85 either thought he was a god or saw this stuff coming. It was clear how his corrupt & controlling little mind worked then., even though it was couched in benign terms.)
What are the chances that sometime in the future, an update will slip in that changes those settings without your knowledge or approval?
Hey! C'mon! Some of us drive Corvettes!
WUDO is a service in Windows 10. Disable the service, issue resolved. I love how all of these articles are made out to be some backbreaking super-scoop gotten by technophiles. If you’re even a moderate-knowledge Windows user, you know to look through your services before really getting into your OS.
So that explains the puddle of oil under my PC!
You are desperately trying to justify the low market share for Linux.
Linux servers are still an instance of one server, which can also be done by a Windows server.
But, that’s not the argument when it comes to real market share of instances of an OS.
The big fact remains that, Windows OS has over 1.5 billion running instances, in consumer machines and in businesses.
Linux can claim the crown for number of servers using it, but, the most important crown is the number of people and businesses using an OS, and there, it is Windows that rules, big time. Linux has been trying to make headway into the desktop/laptop market for over 20 years, and each year, it’s market share remains the same.
I’m not saying that Linux is not a good OS, and I’ve actually installed a few distros on my machines, but, Linux has to be doing something wrong when they keep trying and losing. It might be a good server OS, but it’s not for the regular consumers or for most businesses.
Thank you for the sanity!
Folks the article is a LIE.
Updates are not, repeat NOT shared across the Internet—only on the home or office network!!!
And THAT means you use LESS bandwidth when you have more than one Windows 10 device on your—not other people’s—network.
You and I like bookends. Young ones have no idea how much can be done with commands. Recently I performed a cmd window sort on a million lines of text. It sorted in about six seconds. These machines are really HOT; however, you'd never know it since they work so hard for the graphics and the internal navel gazing.
How do I turn Delivery Optimization off? Here’s how:1. Go to Start button icon, then Settings > Update & security > Windows Update , and then select Advanced options.
2. On the Advanced options page, select Choose how updates are delivered, and then use the toggle to turn Delivery Optimization off. When turned off, you'll still get updates and apps from Windows Update and from the Windows Store.
If you’d just like to stop downloading updates and apps from PCs on the Internet, select PCs on my local network.
“I just upgraded from XP to WIN7, and regret it a lot already.”
I could live nicely with WIN7, but not with 8.0 (now upgraded to 8.1) that came bundled on my current laptop. Going to do the Win10 upgrade as soon as I get the last 57 or so 8.1 Windows update errors figured out and cleared (that’s a whole story itself...).
My problems with the newer Windows is that they changed the functionality of system dialog boxes. Now expensive applications I require no longer work correctly. Well mannered software engineers fix broken software, never changing stuff that works. If they change behavior, it should be done only through different API. The old API must be left intact.
“Users can stop sharing updates on capped connections by setting their connection to metered or disabling the delivery optimisation feature entirely.”
Yeah, right. Joe Sixpack sez: “What’s a torrent?”
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