Problems at Microsoft?

Wed Aug 3 17:27:41 UTC 2005

On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:44:40AM -0400, Drew Weaver wrote:
>             Hi there, we've had a few complaints about connectivity
> issues to Microsoft, is anyone else seeing a problem? Usually I get
> between 2-3MBps when I download from them, at the moment I get 8k/sec
> downloading
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/6/2/b624b535-644a-41e1-9727-812
> dcd6bad87/E3SP1ENG.EXE (service pack 1 for exchange 03) from Both my
> network, and a monitoring server we have in chicago.
> 
> Anyone else seen this?

Seeing this from several locations. For all the locations I am looking 
from, it appears that their CDN service (Savvis footprint.net) has gone 
insane.

>From SBC on the west coast, it is going to what looks for all the 
world to be a cable modem in Korea:

19  catv09634.usr.hananet.net (210.180.96.34)  292.576 ms  218.396 ms  242.135 ms

>From a cable modem in Seattle behind broadwing, it is going to this, 
behind SBC in southern California:

16    62 ms     61ms     50 ms  Savvis-CDN-IAF1075825.cust-rtr.pacbell.net [69.108.147.58]

>From the northern VA area:

 7  cdn-colo.Frankfurtfrx.savvis.net (208.174.60.2)  90.626 ms  90.722 ms  90.661 ms

Makes you wonder if they'll be switching back to Akamai soon. :)

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