Microsoft Updates/Patches - slowing PC to a crawl.

[Drifter]

Why do upgrade downloads from Microsoft.com slow my machine down to a crawl. Even my download speed drops to 30% and my ping jumps through the roof while these patches are downloading. If I download anything else, even torrents, it doesnt have a such a huge effect on my normal browsing etc.

 

[Ry4n]

I must say I don't have that issue.

 

[Impregim]

Why do upgrade downloads from Microsoft.com slow my machine down to a crawl. Even my download speed drops to 30% and my ping jumps through the roof while these patches are downloading. If I download anything else, even torrents, it doesnt have a such a huge effect on my normal browsing etc.

Weird .. No issues here as well. Depends on various dynamics / ISP / Routing path to M$ servers etc.

 

[Arthur]

All fine this side on 5 x PCs.

 

[rinorobert]

All good here, no problems as of yet.

 

[Rickster]

MS updates generally max out my line hence it only allows a few KB's to get through when we browsing etc.

 

[grim]

Why do upgrade downloads from Microsoft.com slow my machine down to a crawl. Even my download speed drops to 30% and my ping jumps through the roof while these patches are downloading. If I download anything else, even torrents, it doesnt have a such a huge effect on my normal browsing etc.

MS updates generally max out my line hence it only allows a few KB's to get through when we browsing etc.

Check under services that the BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer System) is running and set to start automatically, it throttles background Windows downloads if you're busy with something else on the machine

 

[CataclysmZA]

Why do upgrade downloads from Microsoft.com slow my machine down to a crawl. Even my download speed drops to 30% and my ping jumps through the roof while these patches are downloading. If I download anything else, even torrents, it doesnt have a such a huge effect on my normal browsing etc.

Schedule your downloads for late evening after 12PM and make sure BITS is enabled in Services. The only other thing you can do to alleviate this is to set up a cache server to hold a copy of the updates temporarily to be fed to the local network. Something like PFSense or a Windows Server configured to cache and serve Windows Updates would do the trick, but to serve a single machine is a bit too much work.