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Too bad their servers are slow as can be.
by billyvg 15y ago
Too bad their servers are slow as can be.
- paxswill 15y agoThey're not too bad, the iTunes and iOS images took no more than two minutes, and the Xcode image is about 10 minutes for me. Not saturating my connection, but not terrible.
- danilocampos 15y agoIf you're using a DNS service, try removing that from your TCP/IP settings. Dramatic improvement for me.
- danilocampos 15y agoDownvotes... why? Seriously, dropping Google DNS and reverting to my ISP's defaults improved my ADC downloads by 1 mbit.
- bkudria 15y ago...for you.
- danilocampos 15y agoThat's how "if" works, yes. Here are some links: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2778603?start=15&tstart=0 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2778603?start=15&ts... http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20026241-263.html http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20026241-263.html It's something to do with Apple's CDN, as I remember it.
- Terretta 15y agoCDNs often balance by returning an IP address for a server near you when you do a DNS lookp for the CDN. Servers near you generally download faster because of less time wasted waiting on round trip time latency. Problem is, the CDN returns a server near the IP address of the machine doing the DNS lookup, and that's generally your DNS server, not your own box. If you use your local ISP DNS server, that's close enough you do get a nearby server. But if you use a third party DNS server, your DNS lookup might happen from a DNS server in Ashburn VA while you're actually in Chicago. The CDN would balance you to VA instead of Chicago. That's why using a local DNS provider gives faster downloads when the download comes from a multi-POP CDN.
- rimantas 15y agoI got more than 1MB/s (not Mbps) for downloads.