First one with windows 10 anniversary update  

jimbo45 said:

Hi there

Nothing here yet -- "Your device is up to date : Last checked today 09:56."

Sunday 31 Aug.

Is it only at the moment on Insider.

edit : just read --should be availble to Joe Public on Aug 2nd (Tuesday).

If Ms has bandwith problems why not use LEGAL Torrent system for downloads --loads of Legitimate Linux distros are distributed this way - including for example Linux Mint and OPENSUSE. There's nothing wrong in using the torrent method for LEGALLY distributing software to large numbers of users - and it saves overloading the company's servers. Using proper SHA1 and CRC hashes will guarantee proper files are downloaded.

Cheers
jimbo

They have it already for quite some time:)
It's just that, like me, most people keep it turned off.

Ya'll know what?
I think I'll turn it on, and see if it helps!
Thanks for inadvertently reminding me jimbo

Cliff S said:

Ya'll know what?
I think I'll turn it on, and see if it helps!
Thanks for inadvertently reminding me jimbo

Be interesting to see if it has much of an impact on your machine on Tuesday :)

paulsalter said:

Be interesting to see if it has much of an impact on your machine on Tuesday :)

It might. if others turn it on too. It will be less stress on Microsoft's servers, and probably speed things up for all.

My only concern with it is the potential amount of data it uses, it could be massive

If my PC suddenly starts sending out lots of data then my ISP might get suspicious

or am I just turning into the Tin Foil Hat brigade

paulsalter said:

My only concern with it is the potential amount of data it uses, it could be massive

If my PC suddenly starts sending out lots of data then my ISP might get suspicious

or am I just turning into the Tin Foil Hat brigade

Nope, it's just a choice everyone else needs to make for themselves Paul. Plus some have data caps, or other technical reasons, it's not feasible for them to do it(slow band width), but if you have a lot of installations at home, ie PC's and VM's it might be worth it then, for the local network option, to relieve the bandwidth from downloading to each and every machine.

NavyLCDR said:

Cliff, have you seen any evidence the option to pull updates from other PC's actually works? I've got the option enabled on all my computers and it seems like every update is pulled directly from the internet.

As stated above, I just turned it on, I kept it off, as for me it didn't matter if I got it from the servers, I pay for 25Mb/s(usually get 27 though) and only have 2 physical machines and my landline telephone connected to it.
The thread brought to mind(plus the server overload yesterday at Microsoft, that prevented me from downloading the Media Pack for my Windows 8.1 N VM yesterday) that maybe I should "donate bandwidth" to relieve the servers, if possible.
I'm hoping it might atleast do something.

Barman58 said:

I got mine show up in windows update yesterday - what's the prize

Yes.. ya get a trophy.. No.. Everyone gets a TROPHY!!