*PSA* Windows 10 Sharing Your Bandwidth

[JLCitadel]

Follow this guide to stop it

Link 

(warning ad may randomly play, can be annoying)

[pants18]

You are a gentleman and a scholar

[antoainb]

It's bad for people with data caps/really slow internet but it's a good move on MS' side IMO. Windows Update is hella slow and P2P might help with that.

[emachado99]

Great, so now the people who aren't so tech savvy and have limited bandwidth are gonna be screwed over because they updated to Windows 10 and don't even know this is happening?

 

Cool Microsoft.

[Arty]

Great, so now the people who aren't so tech savvy and have limited bandwidth are gonna be screwed over because they updated to Windows 10 and don't even know this is happening?

 

Cool Microsoft.

First off, Good Job MS. Well be most helpfull in officebuilding/schools/mass computer farms.

and there is 0 way windows update will cause a problem for a bandwidth cap  unless your using like phone data for your pc.

the updates are so small, and there are so many pc's  

 

i wanna see the real world data tho.

[Imakuni]

Follow this guide to stop it

Link

(warning ad may randomly play, can be annoying)

Did you know you can just disable it on windows settings? And that during installation, you could also disable it as well?

 

 Geez, stop with the fuss already.

[DildorTheDecent]

http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/15/8218215/microsoft-windows-10-updates-p2p

 

Info has been around since March. 

 

And there for sure was a thread i think about it. 

 

cringe at The Verge eww

[Arty]

It's bad for people with data caps/really slow internet but it's a good move on MS' side IMO. Windows Update is hella slow and P2P might help with that.

Im pretty sure its optimized so you don't even notice it. and i doubt you will hit a data cap. generally people are capped at 150-300 GBS a month.

[Lays]

Im pretty sure its optimized so you don't even notice it. and i doubt you will hit a data cap. generally people are capped at 150-300 GBS a month.

 

 

I guarantee it's probably less than a few mb every month, seeing as millions of computers would be in the network.

[othertomperson]

I don't think using peer-to-peer for updates is bad. If anything I'm amazed we haven't done this before outside of Open Source.

[SeanBond]

Can't say I really care. But then again I probably disabled it on install anyway. 

[Arty]

I guarantee it's probably less than a few mb every month, seeing as millions of computers would be in the network.

i really wanna see the data chart.

and im also sure they have a system in check so each user can only do so much, so the outside network. (inside net prob unlocked.)

 

 

It will be intersecting for the the big WINDOWS Service updates that are 3GBish. to see how it handles that.

[antoainb]

Im pretty sure its optimized so you don't even notice it. and i doubt you will hit a data cap. generally people are capped at 150-300 GBS a month.

 

I would hit 150GB pretty easily. 50GB to my phone alone.

[Arty]

I would hit 150GB pretty easily. 50GB to my phone alone.

yea i have used 500 once (at&t doesn't enforce there 300GB cap) . i generally stay at  75 per month. WE all know we can hit the cap. But how often would you in reality. (unless your redownloading your whole fucking steam library every month.)

[antoainb]

yea i have used 500 once (at&t doesn't enforce there 300GB cap) . i generally stay at  75 per month. WE all know we can hit the cap. But how often would you in reality. (unless your redownloading your whole fucking steam library every month.)

 

I'd say I'd hit 150 pretty often, I would be hard pressed to hit 300 though.

[QueenDemetria]

I'm not worried about hitting data caps, but my ISP throttles P2P traffic, so that wouldn't be  good. Luckily I switched to Linux

[Arty]

I'm not worried about hitting data caps, but my ISP throttles P2P traffic, so that wouldn't be  good. Luckily I switched to Linux

stupid isp

[TetraSky]

Could this potentially be used by attackers to send malware/viruses through the update service? Before this was One-Way only but now that they made it Two-Way, I'm kind of worried on that side.

[Imakuni]

Could this potentially be used by attackers to send malware/viruses through the update service? Before this was One-Way only but now that they made it Two-Way, I'm kind of worried on that side.

In theory, yes. But I think Microsoft is a bit smarter than that.

 

Still, if you don't like it, you can just disable it. It's not as if you were forced to use it.

[JLCitadel]

Did you know you can just disable it on windows settings? And that during installation, you could also disable it as well?

 

 Geez, stop with the fuss already.

 

Apparently you can't read and just came to complain;

#1 the post is to inform people who are unaware

#2 disabling it through windows settings is exactly what the guide shows with pictures

#3 If they don't pay for the bandwidth they don't get to use it how they please

#4 No where in my post did I complain about it either.

[Arty]

In theory, yes. But I think Microsoft is a bit smarter than that.

 

Still, if you don't like it, you can just disable it. It's not as if you were forced to use it.

agreed, i hope they are smart enough so it doesn't back fire.

 

but would be a pretty devastating way to take out  most computers 

[Imakuni]

Apparently you can't read and just came to complain;

#1 the post is to inform people who are unaware

#2 disabling it through windows settings is exactly what the guide shows with pictures

#3 If they don't pay for the bandwidth they don't get to use it how they please

#4 No where in my post did I complain about it either.

chill bruh

[JLCitadel]

chill bruh

 

Amusing you can't even articulate a rebuddle for your stupid comments.

 

Peace, 'bruh'

[Speedbird]

P2P update sharing has been known for months, and now you all go crazy because you find out that updating means downloading and downloading beens bandwidth. This is old news....

[GoodBytes]

I think it is a great! Many people will call and complain on how they passed their limit, threaten to change ISP, and force ISPs to boot the limit.

But on a more serious tone, looking at my bandwidth consumption on my side:

It doesn't seam to be any different from previous months.

(August 6 and 7 was the day I was re-installing 2 system previous Windows, and upgraded them to Windows 10)