[128848] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iPhone updates and required bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Whynott)
Wed Aug 18 15:03:36 2010
From: Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>
To: JoeSox <joesox@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:03:26 -0400
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikusvJO+obMgSz6Js0BjbfVZ9gDMF0=G=MV_cgj@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I set up an OS X server which hosts updates for the rest of the company, s=
o the OS X client machines poll/pull updates from the internal machine as o=
pposed to 100 of them pulling the same updates over the internet. saves bu=
cket loads of bandwidth and you can "pre ok" individual packages, so the =
client just updates without prompting. I'm not sure but I suspect they mi=
ght have something which allows their other devices to poll this same sourc=
e. it would seem reasonable anyway.. =20
probably not a very useful answer but there it is. 8)
-g
On Aug 18, 2010, at 2:54 PM, JoeSox wrote:
> Am I the only one that gets ticked off at the Apple iPhone update
> procedure and the amount of bandwidth it needs?
> Is there any secret I am missing to cut down on the required bandwidth
> needed for it (caching the update somewhere etc)? I don't own an
> iPhone (DroidX user here) and am unfamiliar with the update, all I
> know is it uses tons of BW.
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> Thanks, Joe
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