Windows update borked bad thing or good?

[The PIT]

Looks like Microsoft have got a problem these days with there update site. Most of the time it seems to be down or like as present you can't download anything from it or it downloads at a dismal 2k per 4 minutes. Thats from work or from phone so it's not the machines or the providers.
It's a bugger writing down the patches and downloading them from the website even better when the file can't be found.

[LvR]

Perhaps has something to do with your location?

The 4 new patches that were offered when I tried just now, zoomed down at 512K.

[Fat Tone]

I got 3 critical & 3 other updates for XP yesterday afternoon. They came down at the rate TP describes, and then one of them didn't even manage to install!

T.

[The PIT]

This has been going on and off for a month now. Had a call to the helpdesk yesterday Blah Blah Windowsupdate doesn'y work hasn't for the last three weeks Blal Blal . Not our fault Blah Blah I want it fixed and so on.

[rugger]

Hmmm,

While windows update has been slowish for me, it seems to work at least

[Paddy]

I had that problem yesterday TP, I'll try now

[Paddy]

still constipated

[The PIT]

I wonder if it's there Linux servers acting up

[The PIT]

Hows this for slowness 2mb only 80% downloaded time so far two days.

[Paddy]

finally downloaded and then failed

[GT98]

Windows update was acting wonky for me yesterday too...not even sure if it ever finished before I shut the machine down last night.

[isochar]

Just keep trying to do the install, it'll succeed in about 3 attempts.

[RichL]

Its borked for me too. In my case the .NET update seems to be the main culprit. Downloading the individual smaller security updates seem okay. Not as fast as usual from the MS site, but they work.

[Kurt]

It hasn't been working properly the last month or so. Solution: use the automatic download feature from within control panels. Works like a charm even if the site doesn't.



edit: for win2k - xp that is...

[WyWyWyWy]

Office update is down too.