This morning Microsoft issued a raft of nine new patches for its operating systems (WinXP etc.) and other applications, a fairly common occurrence that both users and ISP’s should be use to.

However at least one major ISP supplier, 186k (Netservices), appears to have suffered service degradation as a result of the mass patching:


None of the updates appeared to be that colossal in size although with such a wide usage of Microsoft software it’s understandable that a limited degree of slowdown could occur as many of them would begin downloading at the same time (auto-update).