Wasn’t exactly sure of the best place for this thread, but here seemed the most suitable.
Over the past couple of days I’ve seen “gaming services” eat up all my bandwidth in Task Manager on a couple of occasions when I’ve been playing another game as I was getting stuttering/laggy movement.
Fired up Task Manager to see what was going on as I initially thought it was high cpu usage but I noticed “gaming services” was using all the download bandwidth it could muster. I then realised it was probably a game update via Xbox Gamepass for PC and lo and behold it was.
Thinking I didn’t want that to happen again, I turned off auto-updates to games in the Xbox app and thought that had cured it.
Fast forward to today, I had the same thing happen, but this time the Xbox app wasn’t running at all (not minimised as I run it when I need to), but “gaming services” was consuming all the bandwidth again.
So I started up the Xbox app to check if a nefarious game update had happened but absolutely nothing was updating. This carried on for a few minutes then it just stopped and “gaming services” was just sat idle.
Digging into it a little it appears that sometimes the service can be used in peer-to-peer updating but nothing locally was running on my network that would need that so I’m thinking it’s externally sending the data.
It was really bloody annoying as it just took over the network and from my google searches it’s been a known issue for years, with no known cure.
Anyone else experiencing the same and/or found out a permanent way to stop MS using their users like torrent nodes?
Over the past couple of days I’ve seen “gaming services” eat up all my bandwidth in Task Manager on a couple of occasions when I’ve been playing another game as I was getting stuttering/laggy movement.
Fired up Task Manager to see what was going on as I initially thought it was high cpu usage but I noticed “gaming services” was using all the download bandwidth it could muster. I then realised it was probably a game update via Xbox Gamepass for PC and lo and behold it was.
Thinking I didn’t want that to happen again, I turned off auto-updates to games in the Xbox app and thought that had cured it.
Fast forward to today, I had the same thing happen, but this time the Xbox app wasn’t running at all (not minimised as I run it when I need to), but “gaming services” was consuming all the bandwidth again.
So I started up the Xbox app to check if a nefarious game update had happened but absolutely nothing was updating. This carried on for a few minutes then it just stopped and “gaming services” was just sat idle.
Digging into it a little it appears that sometimes the service can be used in peer-to-peer updating but nothing locally was running on my network that would need that so I’m thinking it’s externally sending the data.
It was really bloody annoying as it just took over the network and from my google searches it’s been a known issue for years, with no known cure.
Anyone else experiencing the same and/or found out a permanent way to stop MS using their users like torrent nodes?