The sad thing is that despite the *many and various* content-delivery networks around, these vendors do not see it (decent speed downloads for software updates) as a priority for their business.
A ten second search in your-favorite-source-of-knowledge yields *lots* of "we do this already, for software vendors, including authentication and security". It is literally a no-brainer, there is absolutely no excuse for poor download performance of software/firmware updates from hardwawe vendors. Phil P On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Kevin Loch <[email protected]> wrote: > Richard A Steenbergen wrote: >> >> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 06:46:01PM +0100, Malte von dem Hagen wrote: >>> >>> You're right, that suck0rz big time. In 2010, one isn't used to having >>> to wait for a download the time it takes to get a cup of coffee AND to >>> empty it (this even works for the litre-buckets some of my colleagues >>> use as mugs). >>> >>> I always wonder why of all companies network manufacturers have such >>> bad internet connectivity (C and B aren't much better than J...). >>> Maybe they need a good hosting ISP? I'd be glad to help ;-) >> >> Oh trust me vendor B/F is so much worse. Not only to they host their >> download server off a DSL line, but they limit the simultanious >> connections to 1 per IP. You can't even go browsing for other software >> or download the release notes while you wait for your first download to >> finish. And at least Juniper hasn't pulled a Cisco-style move and >> required javascript to download files. > > There is no excuse for that in 2010 (or even 2000). If they don't have > the capacity or expertise to host sufficient download capacity in house > then they should contract that out to someone who does. > > I wonder if they would require the download servers to be behind > some other vendor's routers/switches so they can serve the cricital > update that has their hardware falling over :) > > -Kevin > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
