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windows 10 using all my bandwidth

Soldato
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Something on windows 10 keeps using all my bandwidth and making my in game ping 1000+.

What is it and how do I stop it?

I thought I turned off all updates and stuff but something is killing my connection randomly throughout the day.

It never happened on old windows.

edit: FYI I only have 4.5 meg connection
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Hate this about Windows 10 - really hard to manage your internet connection - especially if you are on something with an allowance or metering :S
 
you can set, either you wireless or wired/ethernet connection as metered in 10 and that should stop updates (at least it successfully held back the Anniversary update for me)
I assume this stops the store too, but I had disabled/uninstalled those apps.

You then just release it, at some time convenient to you, if you want it to do its stuff. ;)
 
you can set, either you wireless or wired/ethernet connection as metered in 10 and that should stop updates (at least it successfully held back the Anniversary update for me)
I assume this stops the store too, but I had disabled/uninstalled those apps.

You then just release it, at some time convenient to you, if you want it to do its stuff. ;)

Thanks didn't know you could set it for ethernet :) I had a quick read of it and looks like that covers all updates.

Does seem a bit of a mess about but the instructions seem good, shame Microsoft doesn't let you set ethernet as metered without the edit.
 
you can set, either you wireless or wired/ethernet connection as metered in 10 and that should stop updates (at least it successfully held back the Anniversary update for me)
I assume this stops the store too, but I had disabled/uninstalled those apps.

You then just release it, at some time convenient to you, if you want it to do its stuff. ;)

Not foolproof (some updates seem to come through anyway) and messy if you swap between metered and unlimited regularly but better than nothing.
 
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