[X4U] Ssssllllooooowwww download speeds from Apple

[Nick Scalise]

I have never seem slow downloads from apple, either from my home ISP, or my work connection. 

I might think it is your ISP, or how you connect to your ISP. It could be that they may have a caching scheme that  does not play well with apple's distribution network.  Or something like that.

Or it could be a peering issue from your ISP to the backbone that apple connects to.

Is there any way you can test from a different connection?

Thanks,

Sent from my iPhone.
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Nick Scalise

On Sep 23, 2012, at 12:52 AM, Conlon Brett <brettnlis at bigpond.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm curious what others are getting speed-wyse when downloading stuff from the Apple servers.
> 
> My MBPro is connected wirelessly to a Time Capsule that has a cable connection to the internet and according to www.speedtest.com, I'm getting around 21Mbps av. download.
> 
> When I download files from apple (eg. iTunes 10.7) I'm getting download speeds of around 50Kps.
> 
> A number of years ago I remember I was getting downloads in the order of MBps but haven't seen that for a LOOOONG time. Everything of late seems to take forever to download from them, for me at least.
> 
> I'm sure it's due to Apple's surging popularity and especially the recent iOS6 release but I thought I'd see how others are faring.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Cojcolds
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