Origin - Akamai
How do the Akamai content servers provide content? I am in South Africa, my Akamai servers point to a local presence where I would presume content would be cached. The ISP hosting the local Akamai server happens to be the same ISP I use.
TracerT of my Akamai server:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.2.9200]
(c) 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>tracert akamai.cdn.ea.com
Tracing route to a1750.g1.akamai.net [197.80.130.25]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 10 ms 7 ms 10 ms 41-132-60-1.dsl.mweb.co.za [41.132.60.1]
3 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms 197-82-5-250.dbn.mweb.co.za [197.82.5.250]
4 21 ms 12 ms 9 ms 197-82-2-3.dbn.mweb.co.za [197.82.2.3]
5 21 ms 30 ms 40 ms tengig0-1-0-0.vic-pe-11.mweb.co.za [197.80.4.125]
6 23 ms 23 ms 28 ms 197-80-130-25.jhb.mweb.co.za [197.80.130.25]
Trace complete.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>
Yet when I monitor my network traffic, I can clearly see that 4 connections are downloading at one time (all the same IP), but they constantly change during the download. None of the IP's are local.
Sample of one of the IP's used while downloading:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.2.9200]
(c) 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>tracert 4.26.235.126
Tracing route to 4.26.235.126 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * 15 ms 13 ms 41-132-60-1.dsl.mweb.co.za [41.132.60.1]
3 21 ms 9 ms 10 ms 197-82-5-250.dbn.mweb.co.za [197.82.5.250]
4 10 ms 10 ms 9 ms 197-82-2-3.dbn.mweb.co.za [197.82.2.3]
5 206 ms 205 ms 205 ms 176.67.177.131
6 204 ms 204 ms 203 ms xe-8-1-0.edge3.London1.Level3.net [195.50.124.133]
7 204 ms 204 ms 204 ms vl-3502-ve-116.csw1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.166.133]
8 201 ms 202 ms 202 ms ae-59-114.ebr1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.153.125]
9 200 ms 200 ms 232 ms ae-1-3.edge4.London2.Level3.net [4.69.141.190]
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.
Trace complete.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>
Would this explain why I can not reach more than half my line speed on the download? It took over 20 hours for me to update my BF3? Whats going on?
