Preface#
The download speed of Windows updates is really slow (although much faster than downloading from the official website).
When Windows 10 was released, Delivery Optimization came along with it to improve the download speed of updates.
This should be something that M$ has created to further improve the download speed of updates.
Steps#
Open Delivery Optimization#
As usual, let's open our beloved "Settings" and go to "Windows Update";
Click on "Advanced options" and then click on "Delivery Optimization";
If you are using Windows 10, you should open "Settings" -> "Update & Security" -> "Delivery Optimization".
Then we can see the settings interface for Delivery Optimization, as shown in the following image:
Turn on "Allow downloads from other PCs" and change the download source below to "PCs on the Internet and those on my local network".
What? Do you think there is a second step? No, you're thinking too much! Yes, configuring Delivery Optimization is that simple.
Notes#
I guess the principle of Delivery Optimization is similar to P2P and other similar things.
Updates that have been downloaded on other computers will be directly downloaded by Delivery Optimization, and these updates will also be retained on your computer, but they won't take up much space.
However, because not many people use it, the effect of Delivery Optimization is not very obvious. Therefore, we need many people to enable Delivery Optimization in order to see the effect.
Delivery Optimization will also use a portion of the upload bandwidth to download updates for other computers, but you can limit this bandwidth in the settings according to your own situation.
There is an activity monitor for Delivery Optimization in the settings, which can be used to view where the downloaded updates come from, the percentage and size; and where the uploaded updates go, the percentage and size.
That's all.
Successfully wrote an article about it 🤣 (just kidding)