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How can I throttle the bandwidth consumed by Windows Automatic Updates?

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Mar 15, 20267713 views
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We have many Windows XP computers sharing one connection to the internet. These machines are set to download all available automatic updates and then prompt the user to install them. Whenever Patch Tuesday rolls around, our internet usage pegs out, and remains that way for most of the day, and some…

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Seems like you should really consider installing a WSUS server. Then only one machine downloads the updates -- all the clients go to it. Free and reasonably easy to setup. All the machines don't need to be in a domain, either (although that certainl…

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