[johnnyhead]

Man, windows 10 already does that. In the advanced update options there is a distributing method menu and it is pretty clear they are using our machines to distribute updates to others.

Disclaimer: Haven't checked in a while and can not do it now, but it was there until not long ago.

[ChrisClark]

Yes it's still there. I just turned it off last week. But still let it share the updates with the other computers in my household LAN.

[atmosx]

Is this on by default?

[smhenderson]

IIRC yes, unless your internet connection is marked as Metered, in which case the default is off.

What I can't remember and am unable to check at the moment is whether Metered is turned on by default or not.

But regardless of defaults, if you mark a connection as Metered than the background update distribution is turned off.

[tracker1]

Metered is part of your connection settings, iirc, like when you establish a connection to a new wifi network. Other applications may be effected by metered networks, and iirc updates don't run at all when on a metered network.

[zython]

Makes me even happier to use Linux almost exclusively now.