Verizon FiOS iPhone update slowdown?

4 points by afitnerd 11y ago ↗ HN

In trying to download the iOS 8 update for iPhone, estimates range between 24 and 48 hours on my laptop.

I have a few servers in the Amazon cloud, so I connected to one of them and downloaded the update from there. It took about 10 seconds to download from Apple's servers to my server!

Then, transferring the update file from the amazon server to my machine took about 7 minutes at a download rate of 5.7MB/s.

Is this indicative of a purposeful slowdown from Verizon? Seems like a Net Neutrality issue.

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tbrock 11y ago ↗

Had the same problem. Also with the OS X 10.9.5 update on the same day.

tarheelredsox 11y ago ↗

Could be, but also it might be the Apple/Akamai/LimeLight CDN have capacity constraints tied with their router interconnect with Verizon. By going via Amazon, you are likely connecting via a different router port.