[128850] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iPhone updates and required bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JoeSox)
Wed Aug 18 15:07:54 2010
In-Reply-To: <A4970B5D-FA71-42ED-8CC3-5BD876776F84@oicr.on.ca>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:07:32 -0700
From: JoeSox <joesox@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Interesting.
Do you have to configure the iPhone devices or just use its standard settin=
gs?
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Thanks, Joe
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca> wr=
ote:
> I set up an OS X server which hosts updates for the rest of the company, =
=A0so the OS X client machines poll/pull updates from the internal machine =
as opposed to 100 of them pulling the same updates over the internet. =A0sa=
ves bucket loads of bandwidth and =A0you can "pre ok" individual packages, =
=A0so the client just updates without prompting. =A0 I'm not sure but I sus=
pect they might have something which allows their other devices to poll thi=
s same source. =A0it would seem reasonable anyway..
>
> probably not a very useful answer but there it is. =A08)
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>
> -g
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> 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)? =A0I don't own an
>> iPhone (DroidX user here) and am unfamiliar with the update, all I
>> know is it uses tons of BW.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Thanks, Joe
>>
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