I assume you mean is it 20 Mbps sustained, not “burst up to” 20 Mbps.  Yes, 
this is done via Preseem, this customer is set to 20M down / 4.4M in Preseem.  
They should be able to get 20/4 all day every day.

 

This customer is on a lightly loaded CBRS sector (8 other subs mostly light 
users), they have a 450b SM at 8X with linktest at 87 down 37 up.  It is one 
lightly loaded 11 GHz 650 Mbps link away from a BGP router with a feed from an 
upstream provider.  It just boggles my mind to have them say their Internet is 
slow because Apple says it times out.

 

I found a web page that purports to list the size of every OS X update, they 
seem to range from 1 to 4 GB, the most recent one 1.2 GB.

 

20 Mbps calculates to 9 GB per hour.  Let’s call it 8 GB because of TCP 
overhead and whatever.  So 1.2 GB would take 9 minutes.  Would a Mac with 
default settings (I assume most Mac users aren’t settings tweakers) enter sleep 
mode after 9 minutes?

 

Often people say they take the computer somewhere else and it updates fine.  
Maybe I’m living in the past, but I refuse to look at 20 Mbps as the new 
dialup, OMG, it’s so slow, I can’t do anything!  But it’s certainly possible 
they are taking it to somewhere with Metronet fiber or Comcast cable Internet 
with a download speed 10 to 50 times faster (assuming their home WiFi doesn’t 
become the weak link).  So instead of 9 minutes, it could be as little as 11 
seconds.

 

I know Mac users think everybody else also has a Mac (and a Volvo in the 
driveway and a Bang & Olufsen stereo in the living room), but I’m not very 
familiar with them.  Perhaps default energy management would enter sleep mode 
as quick as 9 minutes.  Would it go to sleep with an active file download in 
progress?  I don’t know.  And would the download manager not give you an option 
to hit a key and restart the download from where it left off?  Again, I don’t 
know.  Hence I ask.

 

 

From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Timothy Steele
Sent: Saturday, November 7, 2020 4:03 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Apple upgrade times out

 

if you are giving them real 20Mbps no Bursting 

 

and they don't have packet drops or local wifi interference to their router

 

then I have read that MAC's will time out on updates due to the MAC going to 
sleep

setting the sleep timer to a few hours or even never might help

 

On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 7:33 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

I forget if this has been discussed before, but is there something about Apple 
software upgrades that is unique?

 

It seems I regularly get people saying they can’t upgrade their Mac or other 
Apple product because it says it times out.  So of course they say their 
Internet is too slow.  But I’m talking about people with 20M downstream speeds. 
 And no reason they shouldn’t be getting that speed.  And it seems like their 
only complaint is the Apple software updates.  They can stream Netflix just 
fine.

 

Latest one is complaining about a Mac, but I think I’ve heard this about 
iPhone/iPad devices also.  I know iDevices will sometimes switch to cellular 
data, but a Mac shouldn’t be doing that.

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