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by egadsby

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Today the network administrator says to go around the entire office and see if each computer has any automatic updates on and turn them off. i.e especially for IE, mozilla, windows, adobe and such other applications where you can enable this option. The reason is because our web traffic is increasing as well as bandwidth . Does having automatic updates on affect web traffic and or bandwidth? I really would appreciate an answer. thanks

IT tech support guy

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by oh smeg

Yes it does with all the calls home to Mommy to see if there is anything new to add and if there is the download all consume Bandwidth and add to the network load. Maybe there is some Excess Usage thing here or the cost of the next step up in what is paid for may be too much or the Network is lagging and way too slow.

As for where you find this it's in the various applications like Windows has the Security Center where you can turn off Windows downloading any available Hot Patches.

All new Adobe has the same thing in it's setup and so on all through the different Applications loaded.

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by seanferd

Update many.

I would want to guess that there is something else adding to bandwidth consumption, but that's a good first step.

And always listen to OH Smeg.

by dumphrey

I would recommend looking into WSUS. In typical MS fashion, the documentation is horrid, but the process is straight forward and pretty simple. One set up, you can approve each update before pushing it out to local machines. This will not help with Adobe etc. Another thought is to stagger the updates times on different machines so as not to be all using the default. Late at night is good, during the week (so they can be powered off over the weekend to save electricity).

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