In my company we are installing Widnows 7 Enterprise, but noticed something strange. If we select the available language packs for installtion and begin the download (2.2GB in total) the download process on once machine sucks up all available bandwidth on our internet connection. We have link agregators and multiple ISP links and the download of these language packs sucks up 100% of a 15mbps DS3 link. This causes us all sorts of issues because our remote office VPN tunnels suffer because of high network latency this causes. We do NOT have this issue with normal windows updates, only the language packs cause this. Has anyone heard of this before and is there any way to stop this from happening? Joe

Its a reason we use WSUS to manage our updates, I can control when it gets those updates and when it installs to the clients (during non-peak hours).MCSE, MCSA, MCDST [If this post helps to resolve your issue, please click the "Mark as Answer" or "Helpful" button at the top of this message. By marking a post as Answered, or Helpful you help others find the answer faster.]

In my company we are installing Widnows 7 Enterprise, but noticed something strange. If we select the available language packs for installtion and begin the download (2.2GB in total) the download process on once machine sucks up all available bandwidth on our internet connection. We have link agregators and multiple ISP links and the download of these language packs sucks up 100% of a 15mbps DS3 link. This causes us all sorts of issues because our remote office VPN tunnels suffer because of high network latency this causes. We do NOT have this issue with normal windows updates, only the language packs cause this. Has anyone heard of this before and is there any way to stop this from happening? Joe I suggest installing them in stages if network congestion is a nuisance.Vote if answered or helpful, I am running for Office (joke)! IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Mainframe Server: ASRock P4-2GHz, 1.5 GB RAM, Linux Server, need IDE/SATA disks for my chess site Workstation: Asus M2NBP-VM CSM, Athlon64 X2 4200+ 65W CPU, 2GB RAM, x600, 320GB + 160G backup, Windows 7 Ultimate x64.

I realize those are all workarounds, but what I am trying to understand is why the language pack downloads will suck up all available internet bandwidth, whereas all other downlods from Microsoft, such as windows updates, individual patches/apps, etc, do NOT saturate our ISP connections. Just downloading the language packs on one computer is enough to bring our multi-site DS3 links to a crawl. Windows update does NOT do this, so why does installing the language packs cause this issue? Are the language packs hosted on servers with more bandwidth that normal windows updates? Joe

Joe, "normal" tuesday updates are very small and the system checks before downloading each one. So it is not really downloading much at all where as 2.2 gig find is a good size down load, but still it should not be bringing down the network.. is there no QOS device on the network??? I installed the spanish pack and never realy noticed it choking my cable connection (10 plus down) Can you not download the packs once and store them on a network share to install them.