I think there was a thread last year about this, some cobbling of a list of MS IP addresses or something, probably would fail in that the IP space is probably shared with xbox live stuff
This particular release they put out Tuesday i believe it something like 4-5 gb and theyre staging it out over two months or so, its just going to suck It will allow people to delay the installations much easier, but not delay the dl >From the ISP side, we would never tell anybody not to do updates or to delay updates, and never walk a farmer through gpedit ... bad things you could always throw up an AD domain controller and join all your customers to it and run a WSUS server..... nothing could go wrong with that :-) On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Paul McCall <pa...@pdmnet.net> wrote: > What are you guys doing to control Windows 10 update from downloading > updates whenever it wants to? Windows used to have a setting for when it > would download and install, and now that setting (IF have you have access > to the Group Policy editor - some Win versions supposedly don') only allows > defining when it will INSTALL the updates and not when it downloads them. > You can make the update process manual I think through settings, but > customers won't ever update then, introducing other issues. So, that isnt > a great workaround. You can also set an interface to “metered” which means > it won’t DL until it gets an unmetered connection but that won’t help > either. > > Today 3 customers (plus my PC) were killing an AP, all connected to > Microsoft presumably downloading updates as mine was from that IP. That is > what my PC was doing when I caught the problem. All customers and myself > were connected to the same MS IP address. > > Even if customers had access to GPEDIT, and if it had that ability, > talking customers through that would have been a not fun job for tech > support for all the Win10 devices out there now. Supposedly, not all > versions of Win 10 have access to GPEDIT easily. GPEDIT does have a > setting for maximum DL for updates which helps but that would only slow > things down for a loooong time to get updaes. Much better to have it do > full updates after midnight. > > Was wondering if there was something that could be defined at the > customers CPE Mikrotik (in place at 95% of our customers) or at the tower > Mikrotik. > > There has to be some solution. > > > > Paul McCall, President > > PDMNet, Inc. / Florida Broadband, Inc. > > 658 Old Dixie Highway > > Vero Beach, FL 32962 > > 772-564-6800 <(772)%20564-6800> > > pa...@pdmnet.net > > www.pdmnet.com > > www.floridabroadband.com > > > > >
