Ideally, you’d be able to turn on the WUDO feature only just before downloading and installing Windows updates to help ensure the fastest update downloads. Now, the latter likely usefulness of this feature to you and others notwithstanding, you will almost certainly want to keep it disabled since you use your broadband for virtually everything you do on your computer, while Windows updates, as incessant as they can seem, are still relatively sporadic events compared to everything else you do. In the new dialog box, set the Limit type, Data limit and Monthly reset date. Windows 10 includes the functionality to push Windows Updates to other PCs on the network. To limit your bandwidth, click on Enter limit, located right under the Data usage heading. Open Settings Click the Start menu on the lower left-hand side of your monitor and click the ‘Settings.
Follow the steps mentioned below: Open Run (Windows key + R) Type gpedit.msc and click Ok. Via Local Group Policy Editor You can also change the bandwidth limit by editing the Limit reservable bandwidth entry via the Local Group Policy Editor.
Unfortunately, your network bandwidth is limited and now it is being directly employed by Windows to share updates with other users to ease the burden on Microsoft’s servers-and presumably to make things go smoother for you, too, when it’s update time on your end. Similarly, you can choose the upload bandwidth for Windows Update and monthly upload limit. Fortunately, Windows 10 does offer an option to limit bandwidth for those pesky updates. The default value 0 (zero) means that Delivery Optimization dynamically adjusts to use the available bandwidth for downloads. On Windows 10, go to Update & security instead of Windows Update, then follow the same steps as above. In a nutshell, without your knowledge, Windows has signed you up for peer-to-peer-style file sharing with the millions of other Windows 10 users constantly updating their OSs to help those updates download and install faster, by spreading the bandwidth demands across the entire Windows community. Open Settings using Windows key + I Go to Network & internet > Advanced network settings > Data usage On the top-right corner, click and. The idea behind WUDO is similar to torrent sites that make large-file transfer easier (in this case, those increasingly frequent Windows 10 updates) by enabling users to share directly with each other the files associated with updates.