Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

[Tom Deligiannis <tom.deligiannis () gmail com>]

> I get annoyed when I'm chatting with friends, waiting to play some game
> we decided to download, and it's ONLY downloading at 300 megabits per
> second! :P


In this scenario, which mechanism controls the download speed? I hear many
users complain that their gigabit internet connection is not maxing out and
the update is taking forever. I would never expect a gigabit internet
connection to be saturated during a game update, but I'm curious how the
throttling works.

Thanks.


>

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 1:22 PM Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net> wrote:

> Once upon a time, Hugo Slabbert <hugo () slabnet com> said:
> > > This just follows the same rules as networks have always seemed to; If
> > you build it, they will come, and you'll have to build more. :)
> >
> > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
>
> Yep, just like your disk space requirements will always grow to 110% of
> available space.
>
> I get annoyed when I'm chatting with friends, waiting to play some game
> we decided to download, and it's ONLY downloading at 300 megabits per
> second! :P
> --
> Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net>