Road Warrior Milestones: Low Bandwidth

Working from home is one thing, working from anywhere takes some special gear, know-how, and patience. On the road low quality sporadic bandwidth can be very frustrating. When even Radio Paradise starts breaking up while streaming, and you just wanted to send a quick e-mail but now W10 is downloading an upgrade, everything is slow as molasses… Sometimes we have to work with limited on-line resources, get down to bare necessities. Check it out by running a free www.speedtest.net Then learn how to Pause Updates & Cloud Services. In Windows 10: Settings, Update and Security, Pause for 7 days… Or go to Advanced options and Pause for up to 35 days. Next, click on Delivery Optimization, and be sure that ‘Only PCs on my network’ is checked. You should also know how to pause all your Cloud Services like One Drive, Dropbox, or iCloud. Usually it’s just a right-click on the Task Bar icon, then find Pause Syncing. Leave all that superfluous internet load for when you get back to a civilized speed.