Windows 10 uses your bandwidth to help strangers download updates

JMH

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Have you updated your computer to Windows 10 yet?

If so, one hopes you're aware of one of its less well-known features - that could mean that your internet bandwidth and data plan is being used to help complete strangers download their updates.

If you weren't aware - consider this a public service announcement.

In some ways, Windows Update Delivery Optimisation (WUDO) sounds really cool:

Windows Update Delivery Optimization lets you get Windows updates and Windows Store apps from sources in addition to Microsoft. This can help you get updates and apps more quickly if you have a limited or unreliable Internet connection. And if you own more than one PC, it can reduce the amount of Internet bandwidth needed to keep all of your PCs up-to-date.


In other words, it sounds pretty neat. Chances are that you may have more than one PC in your household, and why should they all have to drag an update down in its entirety from the internet?
https://grahamcluley.com/2015/08/windows-10-bandwidth-updates/
 
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