It was loading slow for me, so here's an archived version: https://archive.is/X9A3p
Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth
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#22It was loading slow for me, so here's an archived version: https://archive.is/X9A3p
It would load better if they had a P2P infrastructure like Windows 10's.
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#23I 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.
See the difference is that you explicitly use WebRTC. Distributed systems are great you decide to use them. Someone else turning it on for you is a little dishonest.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The issue here is that your comment is as offensive as his. That's his point.
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#25You're not Microsoft's customer any more. You're their product.
And you'll still need to pay for it.
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#26Let me understand this better: they centralized skype and decentralized software updates? Wow.
Spy on users via Skype, save money on updates. Bonus!
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#27What's the motivation behind this? It can't really be bandwidth cost savings for distributing updates, right? At least, I can't imagine that the savings outweigh the predictably bad press and the additionally required customer support.
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#28If people weren't so nutty about distributing file transfers, we could have a much more robust Internet.
Do you mean it's not a bad idea to use the idle upload bandwidth to distribute the updates, i.e. turn each PC into a bittorrent seed? In theory it's pretty great, in practice, with metered connections you're using up the users internet quota and causing a lot of frustration. I am used to unmetered internet connections, and after moving to the UK I've spent a lot of time investigating why I'm getting an insane amount…
A huge number of people in the UK are on BT's cheapest package, you get a 38mb FTTC connection and a 20gb cap. These are the sort of people who won't even know that a feature like this could even exist, talk about be switched off! I think it's almost criminal that 20gb capped Internet can be advertised as being suitable for a family home in 2015.
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#29I'm trying to turn this option off, but the entire control panel freezes when I click the relevant checkbox.
Windows 10 so far seems good, but what a bunch of terrible launch decisions.
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#30So they made their updates p2p? Why weren't they already? Feels like a no-brainer if you ask me. They need to be careful not to use my bandwidth in a way that I would notice (so basically when idle) and I also feel it would be appropriate to at least ask as there are some people who have data caps to worry about. A connection may be through wifi but still to a capped mobile broadband, such as when connecting to a smartphone. In such cases you often have a limit you unlikely want to use for updates to others.