CataclysmZA

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Baldur's Gate 3 came out, Steam's overall bandwidth consumption went from around 18 Tbps to 146 Tbps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft’s implementation of the feature is called Windows Update Delivery Optimization.

  …microsoft.com/…/windows-update-delivery-optimiza…

  Here’s a short optimisation guide: ctrl.blog/…/windows-delivery-optimization.html

  Fundamentally it’s not like the Bittorrent protocol, even though there are similar behaviours and the result is the same. Microsoft retains the ability to stop the network from seeding updates and has ways of only targeting specific supported configurations to receive new updates.