Windows 10: Does lowering the percentage of bandwidth help internet or performance?

I see a lot of people limiting their bandwidth percentage way lower to 5%. They say that it will help their internet and performance. Is this true?

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Update bandwidth optimisation - percentage meaning

Hi everybody

The new Fall Creator update brings the much awaited update bandwidth management but I have a question and I could not find an answer online.
The control panel allows you to set a percentage of the bandwidth - percentage of what? How does Windows know my internet speed? I am concerned it just uses the network card speed instead.





However in the activity monitor section it also shows an "average download speed (user initiated)" which suggests two things
1. Windows actually knows the speed of the internet - which creates an interesting scenario: say my broadband is 50Mbit, Windows knows that and it is also told to use 50% of that. That night that my internet slows down to 20Mbit, will Windows try to use 25Mbit of it??

2. When updates are initiated by the user, they are not throttled down.





Thanks for your help.
Tony

 

Update bandwidth optimisation - percentage meaning

Uncheck that box for limiting your bandwidth, then turn off "Allow downloads from other PC's" and check to see how your bandwidth works/reacts.

 

Update bandwidth optimisation - percentage meaning

plankton,
If you allow me, what you ask is irrelevant. I can see on my Ethernet performance tab that the whole bandwidth is being fully used - used to be 10Mbit when I was on ADSL it's now 55Mbit on Fibre. The point is that WU is using the whole bandwidth available and that is wrong - it does not matter what speed you have and how much money you pay.
The below is a cumulative update on the new 1709 Windows 10 with download speed set to 45% - my broadband is 55Mbit/s currently.



It's only a short time as it downloaded the package and then started installing it.
Whatever that percentage is, it does not seem to be a percentage of the max download speed!