How do I prevent auto-downloads?

[CmaX]

Hi,

How do I close ports on my router (planet dsl-3100) in such a way to prevent Windows and other programs from auto-updating? How can I prevent movie and other downloads? or movies playing in a browser.

We are 5 housemates sharing the same connection, with no way of controlling bandwidth usage.

The 3GB cap will be reached very soon and then everyone will be hacked off but there's nothing to do and nothing to prevent it happening again in the future!

Please help!

CmaX

 

[dikbek]

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Rather turn off autodownload in Windows

 

[Andre]

For now turn it off as dikbek says.

For next month install a caching web proxy on one machine and set the others to use it. Do a Windows Update from one machine and let it download the usual way. Now let the other machines run Windows Update. They will rip through the download in seconds since they will be getting the updates from the proxy server (assuming each machine has the same OS and is at the same patch level).

Here's a proxy server you can try:
http://www.squid-cache.org/

 

[podo]

When setting up your proxy cache, make sure you chose a healthy file size limit. The machine you set up will need loads of store and core (hard drive space and RAM), and a fast processor.

Then, try setting the file size limit of objects to store to about 160MB, that should catch even the biggest updates and patches and store them in your cache.

Willie Viljoen
Web Developer

Adaptive Web Development

 

[Celemasiko]

get yourself XP Antispy, if you use Windows XP and download the prog. Its very easy to use. Its selfexplanatory

http://xp-antispy.org/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=26&func=fileinfo&parent=category&filecatid=20

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