Windows 10: Limit Bandwidth of Windows Update and Store App Updates in Windows 10

How to: Limit Bandwidth of Windows Update and Store App Updates in Windows 10

How to Limit Bandwidth to Download and Upload Windows and App Updates in Windows 10


Delivery Optimization has been synonymous with Peer-to-peer but few people are aware that it is also used as the main downloader for content downloaded from Windows Update and Windows Store. Delivery Optimization, even without P2P, is what makes downloads from Windows Store much faster as well as makes downloads of Quality and Feature updates far more reliable. While you can enable or disable the P2P functionality, Delivery Optimization is still used when downloading updates and apps directly from Microsofts content servers.

By default, Windows dynamically optimizes the amount of network bandwidth your device uses to download and upload other Microsoft products.

Delivery Optimization continuously measures your available bandwidth during a download and dynamically adjusts the amount of bandwidth used in background downloads to ensure these downloads wont interrupt your use of your device. However, Delivery Optimization may not be aware of download activity that takes place on other devices in your household. If you have limited connectivity and would like to minimize the impact you can now use the Download settings to throttle your download speed for background downloads.

Starting with Windows 10 build 16237, you can set a specific limit if you're worried about data usage.

Starting with Windows 10 build 17035, you can now limit the download bandwidth that is used in foreground downloads. Foreground downloads take place when you interactively start a download, for example you click on Check for updates or start downloading an App from Windows Store.

Starting with Windows 10 build 18917, Microsoft heard from users with very low connection speeds that setting download throttling as a percentage of available bandwidth isnt providing enough relief in reducing the impact on their network. Thats why Microsoft added a new option to throttle the bandwidth used by Delivery Optimization as an absolute value. You can set this separately for Foreground downloads (downloads that you initiate from Windows Store for example) or background downloads. This option already exists for IT Pros who use Group Policies or MDM policies to configure Delivery Optimization. In this build, Microsoft made it easier to set via the settings page.

This tutorial will show you how to limit how much bandwidth is used for downloading and uploading Windows and app updates on your Windows 10 PC.

You must be signed in as an administrator to limit the bandwidth of Windows and app updates.



CONTENTS:

• Option One: Limit Bandwidth of Windows Update and Store App Updates in Settings
• Option Two: Limit Bandwidth of Windows Update and Store App Updates in Registry Editor

OPTION ONE [/i] Limit Bandwidth of Windows Update and Store App Updates in Settings
1. Open Settings, and click/tap on the Update & security icon.

2. Click/tap on Windows Update on the left side, and click/tap on the Advanced options link on the right side. (see screenshot below)



3. Click/tap on the Delivery Optimization link. (see screenshot below)



4. Click/tap on the Advanced options link. (see screenshot below)





Note If you like, you can click/tap on the Activity monitor link to see the overall bandwidth used in downloads of OS Updates including Feature and Quality updates as well as Store App downloads and updates on your device. You will also be able to see exactly the amount of data coming from other PCs on your local network or other PC on the Internet based on your settings.

Note that the data reflects the bandwidth used since the first day of the month.




5. You can now check (turn on) and adjust or uncheck (turn off - default) the download and upload settings below for what you want. (see screenshots below)

• Limit how much bandwidth is used for downloading updates in the background
• Limit how much bandwidth is used for downloading updates in the foreground
• Limit how much bandwidth is used for uploaded updates to other PCs on the Internet
• Monthly upload limit

6. When finished, you can close Settings if you like.










OPTION TWO [/i] Limit Bandwidth of Windows Update and Store App Updates in Registry Editor
1. Press the Win+R keys to open Run, type regedit into Run, and click/tap on OK to open Registry Editor.

2. Navigate to the key below in the left pane of Registry Editor. (see screenshot below)
*Arrow HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DeliveryOptimization\Settings




3. Do the steps below for what you want to do.

• step 4 (Limit bandwidth for downloading updates in background)
• step 5 (Limit bandwidth for downloading updates in foreground)
• step 6 (Limit bandwidth for uploaded updates to other PCs on Internet)
• step 7 (Monthly upload limit)

4. Limit how much bandwidth is used for downloading updates in the background
A) In the right pane of the Settings key, double click/tap on the DownloadRateBackgroundPct string value (REG_SZ) to modify it. (see screenshot below)


Note If you do not have a DownloadRateBackgroundPct string value (REG_SZ), then right click on an empty area in the right pane of the Settings key, click/tap on New, click/tap on String Value, type DownloadRateBackgroundPct, and press Enter.


Tip To turn off (default) this setting, right click or press and hold on the DownloadRateBackgroundPct string value (REG_SZ), click/tap on Delete, click/tap on Yes to confirm when prompted, and go to step 8 below.






B) Type in a number between 5 to 100 for the percentage of bandwidth you want to limit to be used for downloading updates in the background, click/tap on OK, and go to step 8 below.(see screenshot below)




5. Limit how much bandwidth is used for downloading updates in the foreground
A) In the right pane of the Settings key, double click/tap on the DownloadRateForegroundPct string value (REG_SZ) to modify it. (see screenshot below)


Note If you do not have a DownloadRateForegroundPct string value (REG_SZ), then right click on an empty area in the right pane of the Settings key, click/tap on New, click/tap on String Value, type DownloadRateForegroundPct, and press Enter.


Tip To turn off (default) this setting, right click or press and hold on the DownloadRateForegroundPct string value (REG_SZ), click/tap on Delete, click/tap on Yes to confirm when prompted, and go to step 8 below.






B) Type in a number between 5 to 100 for the percentage of bandwidth you want to limit to be used for downloading updates in the foreground, click/tap on OK, and go to step 8 below.(see screenshot below)




6. Limit how much bandwidth is used for uploaded updates to other PCs on the Internet
A) In the right pane of the Settings key, double click/tap on the UpRatePctBandwidth string value (REG_SZ) to modify it. (see screenshot below)


Note If you do not have a UpRatePctBandwidth string value (REG_SZ), then right click on an empty area in the right pane of the Settings key, click/tap on New, click/tap on String Value, type UpRatePctBandwidth, and press Enter.


Tip To turn off (default) this setting, right click or press and hold on the UpRatePctBandwidth string value (REG_SZ), click/tap on Delete, click/tap on Yes to confirm when prompted, and go to step 8 below.






B) Type in a number between 5 to 100 for the percentage of bandwidth you want to limit to be used for uploading updates to other PCs on the Internet, click/tap on OK, and go to step 8 below.(see screenshot below)




7. Monthly upload limit
A) In the right pane of the Settings key, double click/tap on the UploadLimitGBMonth string value (REG_SZ) to modify it. (see screenshot below)


Note If you do not have a UploadLimitGBMonth string value (REG_SZ), then right click on an empty area in the right pane of the Settings key, click/tap on New, click/tap on String Value, type UpRatePctBandwidth, and press Enter.


Tip To turn off (default) this setting, right click or press and hold on the UploadLimitGBMonth string value (REG_SZ), click/tap on Delete, click/tap on Yes to confirm when prompted, and go to step 8 below.






B) Type in a number between 5 to 500 for how many gigabytes (GB) you want to set as the monthly upload limit, click/tap on OK, and go to step 8 below.(see screenshot below)



8. When finished, you can close Registry Editor if you like.

That's it,
Shawn


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