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Windows 10 Is *STEALING* Your Bandwidth - Here Is How You Can Stop It

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Today I just read an article on the internet and I feel like I should definitely share it with my YouTube Fellows.

I read article here:
http://fossbytes.com/windows-10-steals-your-internet-bandwidth-to-send-updates-to-others-disable-it-here/

So a special thanks to this guy for informing about this thing so that we all can correct ourselves.

Here Are some details of Microsoft Windows 10 is actually doing:

Microsoft earlier announced that Windows 10 will be downloading and distributing updates to others using peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol. Now that Windows 10 is released, and you can grab with even without any upgrade icon, Windows 10 is busy using your internet connection to distribute updates to other people on the Internet. Actually, Microsoft has done this to reduce the stress on its servers. Earlier, it was expected that this feature will only work for PCs on your local networks.
Windows 10 steals your internet bandwidth due to a feature called Windows Update Delivery Optimization. It is enabled in Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro versions. Windows 10 Enterprise and Education have this feature enabled, but it works only for the PCs on your own local network.

Just like torrents, everyone having Windows 10 on their PCs, by default distributes some updates to the people who need it. This makes the update process for other fast and less troublesome for Microsoft. Using your data connection to share updates may seem like a good gesture, but what if your data connection isn’t unlimited?

Also read: How to Regain Up To 20GB Disk Space After Windows 10 Upgrade

For those who are having a limited data connection, this feature will use lots of your allotted data and you won’t even realize it. Microsoft has said that this feature will only share updates and it won’t download or send any personal data.
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