How to limit bandwidth to download and upload windows and app updates in Windows 10. Windows updates are essential, but they can also overwhelm your network if left unchecked. In this video, we'll walk you through how to limit bandwidth for Windows and app updates to help you optimize performance control, data usage, and avoid unnecessary data overages. Before we begin, be sure to subscribe to Ninja One's IT Video Hub and our YouTube channel. For more tech content like this setting network bandwidth restrictions in Windows 10. Before you start, you'll need administrator privileges to apply changes to delivery optimization settings for Windows and app updates. Once you have these rights, you can choose from any of the following methods to limit bandwidth for Windows and app updates. Through settings, do the following steps. First, go to settings, update and security delivery optimization. Then click advanced settings. Choose between absolute bandwidth to set a fixed megabits per second limit or percentage of measured bandwidth to set limits relative to available bandwidth. Next, customize the granular controls such as bandwidth. For background update downloads bandwidth used to upload updates to other PCs on the internet, monthly upload caps. This method is the most user-friendly and ideal for shared networks or data capped plans. For advanced control, you can modify bandwidth settings through the registry Editor open the registry editor. You can do this by pressing WIN plus R to open the run command and entering reg edit. Then click okay. Navigate to from here, you can set bandwidth limits for downloads with download rate. Background PCT set bandwidth limits for uploads with download rate foreground PCT restrict bandwidth usage for uploading updates to other PCs using UPRATE PCT bandwidth and configure monthly upload caps with upload limit GB month. For more information, check out our official blog post on how to limit bandwidth to download and upload Windows and app updates in Windows 10 linked in the description below.