On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:47:53PM -0600, Frank Bulk wrote:
Are MSFT's monthly updates really a non-event in regards to internet bandwidth?
Most of these things are pushed out to some sort of CDN or multiple CDN networks. Compared to lots of other things, i'm sure the downloads are much smaller when compared to things like p2p, streaming media foo and legal video downloads. A lot of IT departments also use localized update servers so they get one copy for their 1000's of machines then do the distro internally to their network. Even at my house I run most everything through a caching proxy since compared to my "internet" speed, the disk+ethernet+squid provides a reasonable hitrate. I think there were 3 patches this time and they were quite small overall. - Jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.