Why this matters: With Comcast and other ISPs reportedly cracking down and enforcing data caps, any savings here and there can mean more time for online gaming, Netflix, and backing up photos and documents. The bottom line: It appears that updating your PCs will require significantly less bandwidth than before. (The Creators Update will total about 3GB, Microsoft says.) Microsoft’s also working toward reducing the size of updates by making Windows updates incremental: You’ll only need to download the code that’s changed, meaning those large “rollup” updates might be smaller than you expect. That’s unfortunate, but it appears that the CU (and Delivery Optimization) needs to be in place before your PCs can take advantage of it. There’s just one catch-Delivery Optimization won’t work with the Creators Update itself, Microsoft says. For that reason, you might want to play it safe and only share data among other PCs in your home. Delivery Optimization is mostly known for being a peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed cache technology, but it is also used as a downloader to pull most Microsoft content from the cloud, providing you with tools to control bandwidth traffic and throttling capabilities, to name a few. It’s simply not clear, however, how that process will work-how much data your PC ends up providing to other PCs, and when it will be sent. If you choose the latter, your PC will helpfully send the Creators Update to your neighbors, speeding up the download process. It’s probably on by default, but that might not be the case if Microsoft unexpectedly toggles off Delivery Optimization.īeyond that, there’s one option you must pay attention to: Choosing between supplying updates to just your local network, or your network plus other PCs on the internet. You’ll need to open your Settings menu, then dig into Update & security > Windows Update > Advanced options, and then select the Choose how updates are delivered option. Delivery Optimization isn’t easy to find.
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