[AFMUG] Updates on Windows 10 - how to cope?

[Adam Moffett]

I can confirm behavior already observed by other people on this mailing 
list, Windows 10 updates behave like torrents and can cripple the end 
user by saturating the internet connection with dozens of simultaneous 
connections.

I have 3mbps at home and a Windows update running tonight which has 
crippled internet access for the entire household, including the laptop 
it's running on.  I fixed the rest of the house by putting a limit on 
the laptop....the laptop itself is still more or less unusable.

1) There's no indication to the user that an update is happening.  You 
have to go look in the Windows Update settings to see the progress 
meter.  What happened to the little yellow shield in the taskbar?

2) There's no way for the user to limit consumption...at least not that 
I can see.  There are a couple of ways to stop it from ever updating, 
but really I want to either schedule it to do updates from 1am-6am, or 
limit Windows update to 1mbps.

As a user I find this poorly thought through by Microsoft.  More 
importantly, as a network operator how do I protect customers from this? 
 I'm aware that support staff are receiving more complaints recently 
where the customer claims their speeds are slow or that their connection 
is non-functional, and I have a feeling some of it must be this windows 
10 crap.  Is there a mangle rule that can tag this traffic perhaps?