Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth
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Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth
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Re: Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth
#2If people weren't so nutty about distributing file transfers, we could have a much more robust Internet.
Re: Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth
#3Now, at first I was thinking this was a relatively sane feature like Apple's Software Update Server (which caches and re-serves updates for your local network)[1]. It's a very useful tool, considering the fact that when iOS 7 came out, it took out my entire high school's network because everyone was downloading it.
This isn't transparently helping serve updates to computers on a local network to save bandwidth. It transparently serves updates to the entire world, to eat your bandwidth and conserve only Microsoft's.
Is there a word in English that captures how massively disappointed I am with this being on every Win10 computer and by default?
[1]: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2007100908224845...
Re: Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth
#4If people weren't so nutty about distributing file transfers, we could have a much more robust Internet.
And if it wasn't necessary to ask for consent we would have many more children.
Re: Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth
#5If people weren't so nutty about distributing file transfers, we could have a much more robust Internet.
And if it wasn't necessary to ask for consent we would have many more children.
I'm not arguing anything about children or sexual consent here. Please improve your comment quality.
Re: Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth
#6I thought exaggeration was something reserved to CNN and other news outlet. But here we are.
I think this is a real concern, and users should know what the PC is doing, but half of HN post are about how we can share data among ourselves instead of relying on central distributors.
Your next post should be about how WebRTC steals your bandwidth.
Re: Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth
#7I think a big part of the problem here is the perception of a big company trying to externalize costs onto their users.
The funny thing is, if you ignore the fact that it's a big company named Microsoft who's using your bandwidth and that it's enabled by default, this is actually a pretty awesome feature that could help a lot of people in a lot of situations.
Edit: Clarity
Re: Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth
#8Let me understand this better: they centralized skype and decentralized software updates? Wow.
Re: Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth
#9Now, at first I was thinking this was a relatively sane feature like Apple's Software Update Server (which caches and re-serves updates for your local network)[1]. It's a very useful tool, considering the fact that when iOS 7 came out, it took out my entire high school's network because everyone was downloading it. This isn't transparently helping serve updates to computers on a local network to save bandwidth. It tr…
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