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It's also not Windows 10 specific, the post also mentions Office updates

• JonathonW 10y ago
  There's a mention somewhere in the middle of the thread that someone had seen something similar with Apple's software updates, too: maybe it's a more general Akamai issue? Even if it is isolated to the servers distributing MS's updates, I'm having trouble seeing how this could even be MS's fault-- it's the server side (owned and operated by Akamai) that's misbehaving here.
  • colanderman 10y ago
    I'm not convinced either way. Windows Update is the one opening the dozens of connections (it has to if it's behind a firewall), not Akamai; Akamai's just serving the data. But Windows Update is possibly just calling out to an Akamai library that opens the dozens of connections on its behalf. If there are also congestion-algorithm shenanigans like the forum post suggests, then Akamai is definitely at fault. But the issue I see is that of connection hogging.
    • kev009 10y ago
      * https://developer.akamai.com/stuff/Optimization/TCP_Optimizations.html https://developer.akamai.com/stuff/Optimization/TCP_Optimiza... * https://www.akamai.com/us/en/about/news/press/2013-press/akamai-speeds-downloads-and-online-video-quality.jsp https://www.akamai.com/us/en/about/news/press/2013-press/aka...
  • chopsywa 10y ago
    Apparently Apple has gone away from Akamai.