So all your browsing, downloading, streaming etc is metered? What speed do you
give yourself?
From: Bill Prince
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2017 11:02 AM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Windows 10 Updates running wild
Is this the so-called "Creator's Update"?
I have for a long time set all my ethernet connection to "metered" via a
registry hack. I leave the WiFi connection turned off, except when I want
updates to run. It works for me, as it leaves me in charge of exactly when the
updates run.
bp
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On 4/17/2017 8:15 AM, Paul McCall 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�
pa...@pdmnet.net
www.pdmnet.com
www.floridabroadband.com
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