Hi! I know its against list policy to forward messages but I think this message I received from a friend of mine who works for one of Australia's big Mobile company's to be extremely important for all list members who wish to update their IOS devices,, this chap - who just happens to be totally blind - is a mobile engineer with the company who gets hold of first-hand information on Iphone etc.
Begin forwarded message: > > Owners of an iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Apple TV were yesterday able to > update their devices to Apple’s new iOS 5 software, providing them with a > number of new features and access to the company’s new cloud service iCloud. > Update below. > > Apple experienced problems of its own, with many users unable to update their > devices because its servers were unable to cope with requests to activate > their installs, pulling an “internal error occurred (3200)” message each time > they attempted to install the update. > > It appears that whilst Apple stuggled to cope with demand, ISPs were facing > issues trying to keep traffic flowing through their networks, as Apple device > owners attempted to download at least 600 megabyte updates. > > One ISP, AAISP, was “caught unawares” and yesterday evening saw “silly high > usage since around 18:40 [BST]” leading them to think that “something [was] > clearly ‘up’ and there [was] some ‘internet event’ happening”. > > As Cult of Mac notes, that “internet event” was the release of iOS 5, Mac OS > X 10.7.2 and a number of new applications. > Throughout the evening, AAISP engineers posted on the company’s Incident and > Status Page, noting just what was happening to its network as subscribers > fired up their iTunes clients and updated their iOS devices: > > At 8.53pm, they wrote: > This is worse than the world cup traffic! > > Two minutes later: > Only clue is new Apple IOS5 stuff – if that is the cause I am impressed. > > At 8:57pm: > Usage has just reached unprecidented levels – we have not seen anothing like > this… > The team then saw that issues were being reported on other UK ISPs, forcing > them to increase their core link to maximum output to cope with demand. The > company was forced get its FireBrick team working hard to scale its CPU > output and loads to cope with “unprecidented levels of usage”, something that > could have failed users should it not have been adequately managed. > > They also exclaimed that they knew that there was a Windows Update and > Apple’s iOS 5 release, but didn’t believe that could have been just those > updates. > > However at 8:45am this morning, AAISP engineers confirmed that suspicion: > We are guessing this was IOS5 release. > > TNW contributor Steve Kennedy noticed the spike at a London broadband > exchange, sharing a graph of the traffic boost at the time: > The traffic at the LONAP (LONAP is a London Neutral Internet Exchange Point > where Internet and content providers exchange traffic) increased from a > normal peak of around 18Gb/s to around 28Gb/s. > > This was just in the UK but will have almost certainly been mirrored across > the world. > > Did Apple break the Internet? Probably not. It just gave some ISP engineers a > bit of a scare. > > Update: Andy Davidson, the Director of LONAP, gave us this statement about > the traffic: > The traffic was around twice what we would see on a typical Wednesday > evening. There was as much traffic as we would see for a major sporting > event (such as England playing in the World or European cups). Such volumes > have never been seen before for a software upgrade. > Sean McGerty | Architect | Converged Architecture & Design | Mobile & > Converged Service Engineering | Optus Networks | 1 Lyonpark Road, > Macquarie Park NSW 2113 | t: +61 2 8082 1258 > **** DISCLAIMER **** > This e-mail may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended > recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail from > your system. You must not disclose this email to anyone without express > permission from the sender. The contents of all emails sent to, and received > from, Optus may be scanned, stored, or disclosed to others by Optus at Optus' > discretion. Optus has exercised care to avoid errors in the information > contained in this e-mail but does not warrant that the information is error > or omission free. > QP Please think of the environment before printing this email <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
