>>>Win7 EOL is in 2020, not that far off. Also if you have to test on Win10 you'll need at least a VM, or if you have to test on the Edge browser etc.
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>As every VFP'er knows, EOL is to be feared. ;-) Most likely we'll install W10 on one of the test machines and use it solely for testing.
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>As for blocking IP or re-routing addresses: I agree, trivially easy on the PC or router. It might even become a point of difference for free wireless or other providers : "no data slurping while you slurp your Starbucks!" That's not your typical corporate mindset but the opportunity for some legal rebelliousness that does over the Borg will be too difficult to resist in some quarters. ;-)

if your hosts does the work, the free wifi has no meaning. router is more or less for the local desktops, easiere to maintain.

Only the problem to retrive the updates remains. c't (a german computer mag) has a cool tool that does the updates localy. http://www.heise.de/download/wsus-offline-update-ct.html. All german. But this need to run outside ...