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Re: Browsing through treacle again
16-10-2009 12:28 PM
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My ticket has just been returned to me and I'm now being told that PN can't differentiate between MS downloads coming from Akamai and "dynamic" content like BBC news / Facebook etc :
Quote We are currently seeing large amounts of traffic from the content provider Akamia due to new windows updates and patches released this week.
Due to this large volume of traffic this week we have had to manage Akamia traffic so that the impact on other protocols and services are not greatly affected.
I cannot believe this really can be the case. We've heard so much about how wonderful these bits of kit are - when apparently all they can do is restrict traffic based purely on where it is coming from.
Also that really doesn't explain why its been bad for a long as it has
Re: Browsing through treacle again
16-10-2009 3:44 PM
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Re: Browsing through treacle again
16-10-2009 8:27 PM
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16-10-2009 10:14 PM
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16-10-2009 10:19 PM
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Re: Browsing through treacle again
16-10-2009 10:28 PM
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Re: Browsing through treacle again
16-10-2009 10:28 PM
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Re: Browsing through treacle again
17-10-2009 8:59 AM
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Re: Browsing through treacle again
18-10-2009 11:27 AM
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Quote Thank you for your reply. As the updates such as the one recently released by Microsoft are only sent out every 1-2 years this is a rare occasion. In addition, due to the number of people using Windows machines it is inevitable and therefore unavoidable that it will impact the network bandwidth due to pure demand.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this has caused.
Is that it?
We've been told that all this kit is supposed to STOP things like MS updates overwhelming the network, then we're basically told that the kit can't tell the difference between MS patches coming from Akamai and things like BBC news coming from Akamai, and finally we're told that actually pure demand just kills the network anyway.
If that is the case why have all these clever bits of kit.
Maybe PN should approach Microsoft and ask for compensation of some sort
Re: Browsing through treacle again
19-10-2009 4:21 PM
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19-10-2009 8:02 PM
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19-10-2009 8:10 PM
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19-10-2009 8:49 PM
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The other half is trying to download Norton Antivirus and its taken about 15 mins to download 4 megabytes!
Re: Browsing through treacle again
19-10-2009 8:53 PM
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Regards
Mike
Superusers are not staff, but they do have a direct line of communication into the business in order to raise issues, concerns and feedback from the community.
Re: Browsing through treacle again
19-10-2009 9:03 PM
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