check to see if you have wudo enabled, mrf71 … wudo allows other parties to gather portions of the update directly from your computer … rather than those individuals obtaining updates directly from microsofts' servers. hence … almost all the resources from your computer are prioritized by, you guessed it, wudo! personally speaking, once wudo was disabled … i was able to access the computer as well as the internet … in normal manner.
so … briefly reiterating, mrf71 … microsoft has found a way of, not only forcing updates upon us (robbing us of resources/bandwidth) … but also manipulating us to update others'...