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Gus
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akamai speed cap lower than normal?

Trying to get nvidia drivers and download speed is capping to maximum of 30kB/s and usually stalling.  I have tried with Opera/Waterfox with no change and wireshark shows its on the correct Traffic Priority of 0x80
FTTP 500 regrade from Tues 28th November
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elfish
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Re: akamai speed cap lower than normal?

I am also having this issue.
Nvidia drivers and Adobe software.
Addresses that seem to be giving slow dl speeds:
uk.downlaod.nvidia.com
us.download.nvidia.com
ardownload.adobe.com
mherbert
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Re: akamai speed cap lower than normal?

Major speed issues downloading on PS3, router logs show
zeus.dl.playstation.net
which resolves to Akamai IP addresses

MatthewWheeler
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Re: akamai speed cap lower than normal?

We're looking into this to see if we can shed any light on it.
[EDIT]
We've raised this internally on Ref: 86019
If this post resolved your issue please click the 'This fixed my problem' button
 Matthew Wheeler
 Plusnet Help Team
elfish
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Re: akamai speed cap lower than normal?

Thanks Matt.
It also seems to be affecting windows updates (those that are on Akamai servers).
shaunfriend
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Re: akamai speed cap lower than normal?

I can confirm I am seeing the same behaviour on a fibre connection from Plusnet. Feels like very aggressive traffic shaping as it starts out (albeit very briefly) quickly and then very rapidly reduces down to 0bytes/s
elfish
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Re: akamai speed cap lower than normal?

If its any help, I can stream HD video via BBC iPlayer without issue from the Akamai servers.
chrcoluk
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Re: akamai speed cap lower than normal?

no url's supplied for others to test.
I just tried http://uk.download.nvidia.com/Windows/350.12/350.12-desktop-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-international-w...
It is crawling at a very low speed.

I am on a unlimited product so why am I rate limited?
downloading via a proxy gives a speed about 90% of line speed.
oh dear.
NoZephy
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Re: akamai speed cap lower than normal?

Having the same problems with Nvidia's downloads, stays around 15-30kb/s and then stalls completely. I also noticed that Malwarebytes took unusually long to update as well.
Hopefully this gets sorted quickly.
mherbert
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Re: akamai speed cap lower than normal?

Thanks Matthew.
It's taking *days* to download DLC from Playstation Network (Akamai IP addresses)
Chris
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Re: akamai speed cap lower than normal?

We'll post back when we've got any update on the problem.
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chrcoluk
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Re: akamai speed cap lower than normal?

the problem still exists now incase you wasnt aware, so seems it has no relation to peak time.
Chris
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Re: akamai speed cap lower than normal?

Thanks all, any chance of a couple of tracerts from someone who is affected?
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Gus
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Re: akamai speed cap lower than normal?

http://uk.download.nvidia.com/Windows/350.12/350.12-desktop-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-international-w... gives the attached trace, no change today still can't download it
edit: due to get fibre tomorrow to complicate things, if trying to do a remote test with my connection
FTTP 500 regrade from Tues 28th November
chrcoluk
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Re: akamai speed cap lower than normal?

Tracing route to a453.d.akamai.net [23.192.162.98]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  home.gateway [192.168.1.253]
  2    42 ms    17 ms    16 ms  lo0-central10.pcl-ag08.plus.net [195.166.128.189
]
  3    16 ms    15 ms    15 ms  link-a-central10.pcl-gw01.plus.net [212.159.2.18
8]
  4    16 ms    19 ms    15 ms  xe-9-1-0.pcl-cr01.plus.net [212.159.0.220]
  5    16 ms    15 ms    16 ms  ae1.ptw-cr01.plus.net [195.166.129.0]
  6    16 ms    16 ms    18 ms  ae2.ptw-cr02.plus.net [195.166.129.5]
  7    *        *        *    Request timed out.
  8    20 ms    20 ms    20 ms  a23-192-162-98.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.
com [23.192.162.98]