[165735] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iOS 7 update traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan Irvine)
Thu Sep 19 15:04:08 2013
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1309191010260.16915@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:31:22 -0700
From: Bryan Irvine <sparctacus@gmail.com>
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Apple actually tries to rate-limit the notifications to prevent this, but
you can just manually go check and hit the upgrade button yourself. It's
pretty well-known that Apple likes to release ~10am, so tens (hundreds?) of
millions of users did just that. Since this update is available for all
iThingies made in the last 4-ish years that means a lot of extra traffic.
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Justin M. Streiner <streiner@cluebyfour.org
> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Paul Ferguson wrote:
>
> Can someone please explain to a non-Apple person what the hell happened
>> that started generating so much traffic? Perhaps I missed it in this
>> thread, but I would be curious to know what iOS 7 implemented that
>> caused this...
>>
>
> I think this was just the traffic to download iOS 7 to everyones' relevant
> Apple devices. I don't know how large the update was (maybe a few hundred
> MB per device?), but I guess everyone got the notification or their devices
> started automatically downloading around the same time. The vast majority
> of the traffic here (large .edu) happened between about 1 and 5 PM
> yesterday.
>
> jms
>
>
