The Old New Thing

Control how much network bandwith Automatic Updates will use

January 27, 2005 Jan 27, 2005 01/27/05

Raymond Chen

By default, the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) which is used by Automatic Updates will use idle network bandwidth for downloading updates. This is normally not a problem. One case where it can be a problem is you have a large LAN that shares a single DSL connection. BITS doesn't see that that DSL connection is shared. ...