[165758] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iOS 7 update traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gabriel Blanchard)
Thu Sep 19 16:39:04 2013
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 15:38:57 -0400
From: Gabriel Blanchard <gabe@teksavvy.ca>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CE60941F.6BE8%wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 13-09-19 02:46 PM, Warren Bailey wrote:
> A line, is a line, is a line, is a line.
>
> There's no difference. Updates are available to all devices on a "download
> day", and providers networks are drastically reduced in capacity as a
> result. Apple does not cut them checks to serve it up, why should that
> traffic be more important than anything else? I'd DSCP updates to best
> effort hell and tell Apple I'd like a small share of the revenue they've
> gained from all the devices *I* am responsible for updating. They're not
> getting these updates OTA often, they actually advocate (shocking, AT&T
> wanting to save bandwidth) using your home Wi-Fi to download it. Providers
> can handle peaks, but SURGES begin to cause problems quickly. On
> narrowband pipes, we actually KILL updates.. They screw us that hard.
You fail at internet, please try again later.
