WSUS 3 download speeds "Simon Gronow" <srg[ at ]babcom.net.au> 6/15/2007 7:31:11 AM Hi I have got 2 WSUS servers on the same ADSL link. 1 x WSUS ver 2 and 1 x WSUS ver 3. After approving updates it seems that the Ver 2 WSUS downloads quicker than ver 3. Is it me, the setup or WSUS?

Re: WSUS 3 download speeds "Lawrence Garvin \(MVP\)" <onsitech[ at ]community.nospam> 6/16/2007 3:12:17 AM "Simon Gronow" <srg[ at ]babcom.net.au> wrote in message news:%23e2Wn8xrHHA.4104[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > I have got 2 WSUS servers on the same ADSL link. 1 x WSUS ver 2 and 1 x > WSUS ver 3. > > After approving updates it seems that the Ver 2 WSUS downloads quicker > than ver 3. > > Is it me, the setup or WSUS? Could be any one of a gazillion things. Unless the servers are configured identically, such that they're configuring exactly the same metadata, it's anybody's guess. If they're configured identically, were synchronizing and downloading exactly the same content, it could still be the source server, since WSUS 2 and WSUS 3 synchronize with different server farms at microsoft.com. I'd say the most likely reason is [d] None of the above. Consider that gazillions of users all over the world are downloading and installing WSUS 3, and performing *initial* synchronizations against the WSUS 3 source servers. Consider that almost nobody is installing WSUS 2 and performing an *initial* synchronization. Which one would you expect to be faster? -- Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCTS, MCP Independent WSUS Evangelist MVP-Software Distribution (2005-2007) https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=30E00990-8F1D-4774-BD62-D095EB07B36E Everything you need for WSUS is at http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/technologies/featured/wsus/default.mspx And, almost everything else is at http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com .....

Re: WSUS 3 download speeds "Dave Harry" <DaveHarry[ at ]please.keep.replies.in.the.newsgroup> 7/11/2007 4:26:15 AM I just came here just now wondering about this question too. My WSUS3 has been downloading 160MB of updates _all_day_, and so far it's taken 5 hours to get to 81MB. By comparison, WSUS2 (in its hey day) used to come down almost half as quick as the pipe. A check on the firewall shows _total_ internet traffic sitting at about 20% of our bandwidth. CPU use on the WSUS is bugger all, < 1%. Is there anything I can do to speed it along? (I had planned to get a lot of patch testing done today.) -- Dave Harry "Lawrence Garvin (MVP)" <onsitech[ at ]community.nospam> wrote in message news:udsIoQ8rHHA.3884[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > "Simon Gronow" <srg[ at ]babcom.net.au> wrote in message > news:%23e2Wn8xrHHA.4104[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > >> I have got 2 WSUS servers on the same ADSL link. 1 x WSUS ver 2 and 1 x >> WSUS ver 3. >> >> After approving updates it seems that the Ver 2 WSUS downloads quicker >> than ver 3. >> >> Is it me, the setup or WSUS? > > Could be any one of a gazillion things. Unless the servers are configured > identically, such that they're configuring exactly the same metadata, it's > anybody's guess. If they're configured identically, were synchronizing and > downloading exactly the same content, it could still be the source server, > since WSUS 2 and WSUS 3 synchronize with different server farms at > microsoft.com. I'd say the most likely reason is [d] None of the above. > > Consider that gazillions of users all over the world are downloading and > installing WSUS 3, and performing *initial* synchronizations against the > WSUS 3 source servers. > > Consider that almost nobody is installing WSUS 2 and performing an > *initial* synchronization. > > Which one would you expect to be faster? > > -- > Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCTS, MCP > Independent WSUS Evangelist > MVP-Software Distribution (2005-2007) > https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=30E00990-8F1D-4774-BD62-D095EB07B36E > > Everything you need for WSUS is at > http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/technologies/featured/wsus/default.mspx > > And, almost everything else is at > http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com > .... >

Re: WSUS 3 download speeds "Lawrence Garvin \(MVP\)" <onsitech[ at ]community.nospam> 7/12/2007 2:27:22 AM "Dave Harry" <DaveHarry[ at ]please.keep.replies.in.the.newsgroup> wrote in message news:OzAVnO3wHHA.3340[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] >I just came here just now wondering about this question too. > > My WSUS3 has been downloading 160MB of updates _all_day_, and so far it's > taken 5 hours to get to 81MB. > By comparison, WSUS2 (in its hey day) used to come down almost half as > quick as the pipe. Yes.. but think back to your *initial* WSUS 2 synchronization and download! :-) > Is there anything I can do to speed it along? (I had planned to get a lot > of patch testing done today.) If you know you have the bandwidth available, and you're not concerned with saturating your Internet link, you can put BITS in foreground mode. -- Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCTS, MCP Independent WSUS Evangelist MVP-Software Distribution (2005-2007) https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=30E00990-8F1D-4774-BD62-D095EB07B36E Everything you need for WSUS is at http://www.microsoft.com/wsus And, almost everything else is at http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com .....

Re: WSUS 3 download speeds "Dave Harry" <DaveHarry[ at ]please.keep.replies.in.the.newsgroup> 7/12/2007 4:58:05 AM [Quoted Text] >> My WSUS3 has been downloading 160MB of updates _all_day_, and so far it's >> taken 5 hours to get to 81MB. >> By comparison, WSUS2 (in its hey day) used to come down almost half as >> quick as the pipe. > > Yes.. but think back to your *initial* WSUS 2 synchronization and > download! :-) Really? I didn't notice it was that bad. Possibly because I remember SUS wanted to download several GB - over a dial up modem! >> Is there anything I can do to speed it along? (I had planned to get a lot >> of patch testing done today.) > > If you know you have the bandwidth available, and you're not concerned > with saturating your Internet link, you can put BITS in foreground mode. Thank you. I would like to do that. I googled your suggestion and found "WsusDebugTool.exe /Tool:SetForegroundDownload" Is that tool still valid for WSUS3.0, since the database is different? If not, how would I go about it? -- Dave Harry

Re: WSUS 3 download speeds "Lawrence Garvin \(MVP\)" <onsitech[ at ]community.nospam> 7/13/2007 2:09:47 AM "Dave Harry" <DaveHarry[ at ]please.keep.replies.in.the.newsgroup> wrote in message news:u%23yu8EExHHA.3684[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] >>> Is there anything I can do to speed it along? (I had planned to get a >>> lot of patch testing done today.) >> If you know you have the bandwidth available, and you're not concerned >> with saturating your Internet link, you can put BITS in foreground mode. > Thank you. I would like to do that. > I googled your suggestion and found "WsusDebugTool.exe > /Tool:SetForegroundDownload" > > Is that tool still valid for WSUS3.0, since the database is different? > If not, how would I go about it? Actually, I'm not sure, which is the only reason I didn't provide explicit instructions in the previous message. I scanned the Deployment Guide and Ops Guide and couldn't find any reference to any *new* methodology for placing BITS in foreground mode, so, unless something has radically changed in the server debug tool -- I would think that it still works -- but I don't know that for a fact. -- Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCTS, MCP Independent WSUS Evangelist MVP-Software Distribution (2005-2007) https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=30E00990-8F1D-4774-BD62-D095EB07B36E Everything you need for WSUS is at http://www.microsoft.com/wsus And, almost everything else is at http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com .....