Microsoft's Black Tuesday bandwidth impact?
Jay Hennigan
jay at west.net
Wed Jan 9 21:56:38 UTC 2008
Frank Bulk wrote:
> Every month I look at my upstream bandwidth graphs and I see no blip in the
> hours before 3 am on Microsoft's Black Tuesday. I would think that with the
> thousands of PCs out on our network downloading updates around that time
> that I would see *something*. I know every Black Tuesday I see my three
> PC's blinking a logon screen.
>
> Are MSFT's monthly updates really a non-event in regards to internet
> bandwidth?
Do you have Akamai servers locally on-net?
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