While this may not seem any awe-inspiring news at first sight... if you consider that Akamai hosts websites like Microsoft, Apple, Intel & Adobe, then this is a revolution for our CyberTowerIsland. It was a week ago that My.T users reported on Avinash Meetoo's blog that they were getting great speeds when downloading updates from Microsoft & Apple. Akamai is one the largest CDN in the world, having servers in more than 70 countries. How Akamai works – Read more here. Actually it's been more than a month that Akamai have setup their servers in Mauritius. As for the location of the datacentre, it's quite probable that it's not at Albion, but rather at Ebene... So what does this mean for you? If you've got ADSL, nothing. But if you have My.T, you will now be getting full 2Mbps speed on these websites! (Download speed will be around 200-250KB/s) FUP? List of Websites being hosted by Akamai in Mauritius. Akamai - www.akamai.fr & www.akamai.com Intel - www.intel.com Microsoft (Download) - download.microsoft.com/download Nokia (Africa) - mea.nokia.com Adobe (Download) - download.adobe.com Audi - www.audi.com L'Equipe - www.lequipe.fr NBA - www.nba.com ESA - www.esa.int New Zealand - www.newzealand.com Manchester United - www.manutd.com AlloCiné - www.allocine.fr The Daily Telegraph - www.telegraph.co.uk Metacafe - www.metacafe.com Discovery Channel - dsc.discovery.com BBC News - newsimg.bbc.co.uk TopGear.com - www.topgear.com If you've discovered more sites, please do comment, I'll add it to the list. The Microsoft, Apple & Adobe sites aren't fully mirrored yet - only the download servers so far. Downloading Windows Updates, Apple Updates & software trials should be lightning fast! & when Orange will launch iPhone, downloading from iTunes Store (Mauritius) would be much easier! :) As for interesting content, try Apple Movie Trailers, MTV Music Vids & Nasa Multimedia. Tip: Don't use OpenDNS!!! Use default IP settings, i.e. MT's DNS so that you'll be automatically redirected to local Akamai servers. :) Unfortunately, we'll be missing the big G with its vast YouTube content, Blogger blogs & other services that are only available at Mountain View.
Then Avinash did some investigation on http://www.intel.com/ & the IP was revealed to be 196.27.66.8 & 196.27.66.9 - Mauritian IPs! 20% of the world's Internet traffic is delivered over the Akamai platform.
Check this Visualizing Global Web Performance
The actual speed should be between 1.5 to 1.8Mbps depending on your geographical location - but having a megabit connection is more than enough!!
Although this should be a local connection, Orange will still count it as they monitor your whole traffic usage.
Actually it's very easy to know which sites have a Mauritian IP. Just use the Flagfox extension (thanks to Who? for the tip!).
AMD - www.amd.com
Nvidia - www.nvidia.com
ATI - ati.amd.com
Live Search - www.live.com
Apple - images.apple.com
Apple (Download) - appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net
HTC - www.htc.com
Samsung - www.samsung.com
Sony (Africa) - www.sony-mea.com
Sony Ericsson - www.sonyericsson.com
Philips - www.philips.com
Symantec - www.symantec.com
Trend Micro - us.trendmicro.com
DivX (Download) - download.divx.com
Corel - www.corel.com
Winamp (Download) - download.nullsoft.com/winamp
BMW - www.bmw.com
Porsche - www.porsche.com
Toyota - www.toyota.com
Lexus - www.lexus.com
Nissan - www.nissanusa.com
General Motors - www.gm.com
Ford - www.ford.com
Maserati - www.maserati.com
Nissan GT-R R35 - www.gtrnissan.com
France Télévisions - www.francetelevisions.fr
Rediff - www.rediff.com
Voice of America - www.voanews.com
New York Post - www.nypost.com
CNBC - www.cnbc.com
MTV - www.mtv.com
NBC - www.nbc.com
WWE - www.wwe.com
NASA - www.nasa.gov
MIT OpenCourseWare - ocw.mit.edu
Swiss Info - www.swissinfo.org
Tektronix - www.tek.com
Analog Devices - www.analog.com
Tagged - www.tagged.com
Red Bull - www.redbull.com
InterContinental Hotels - www.ichotelsgroup.com
Monster - www.monster.com
Cirque du Soleil - www.cirquedusoleil.com
Chelsea - www.chelseafc.com
TiViMi - www.tivimi.fr
Culture Pub - www.culturepub.fr
PC Magazine - www.pcmag.com
Wired - www.wired.com
Best Buy - www.bestbuy.com
Daily Mail - www.dailymail.co.uk
The Sun - www.thesun.co.uk
The Mail on Sunday - www.mailonsunday.co.uk
Hulu - www.hulu.com
South Park Studios - www.southparkstudios.com
BollywoodHungama/IndiaFM - www.bollywoodhungama.com
Brothersoft - www.brothersoft.com
NYSE - www.nyse.com
CelebTV - www.celebtv.com
Boy Genius Report - www.boygeniusreport.com
HowStuffWorks - www.howstuffworks.com
TopGear.com USA - www.topgear.com/us
Pixar - www.pixar.com
Adidas - www.adidas.com
Coca Cola - www.coca-cola.com
Louis Vuitton - www.louisvuitton.com
L'Oreal - www.loreal.com
Gap - www.gap.com
Kioskea - en.kioskea.net
Akamai’s Full Customer List.
& Rapidshare as well! :P
Update: Cahri.com/blog - Akamai à Maurice: à quand le tour de la Réunion?
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Awesome...But I dont think I visited any of the above websites..LoL...
Moi oci lol... but site nasa mone checker paret serye :-)
pa ti pu mal si akamai ti include rapidshare .!!!
cool....no wonders i got 250Kb/s wen downloading itunes... :)
@V!N$H!
Finally, someone got full speed! :D
@Anonymous
RS.com can't use Akamai... coz they've got millions of files... :(
Can i get Akamai to cache my site? :P
lol!
@Yashvin
LOL! Unless you want to open your own download/file-sharing service! ;)
I found the following:
AlloCiné - http://www.allocine.fr/
Manchester United - http://www.manutd.com/
TiViMi - http://www.tivimi.fr/
Culture Pub - http://www.culturepub.fr/
Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
PC Magazine - http://www.pcmag.com/
Daily Mail - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
Best Buy - http://www.bestbuy.com/
@Anonymous
Thanks a lot! :D
+1 for manutd.com!
Btw Liverpool & Arsenal are not Akamai-hosted, but Chelsea's site is! :P
www.adobe.com i think since i was getting 195KB/s when downloading adobe reader
@Yasir
No, www.adobe.com isn't hosted yet, only the download servers like download.adobe.com or http://ardownload.adobe.com/ for Adobe Reader.
hello.
thanks for the list :)
n adding me to the credit. lol!
add this to ur list
www.images.apple.com everything is cache except the 'store'
flagfox is very interesting/useful. for example i found out that some 'mauritian website' are NOT in Mauritius. and the .mu can be use even for stuff that don't conserve Mauritius. example http://www.annievilleneuve.mu
she ain't got anything to do with Mauritius (I like her songs) see where its base? :)
cya.
@who?
Thanks for the link! :)
Yeah, I've seen some sites using .mu - & I always wonder why - .mu isn't the cheapest available... :)
Because mu is not sold by mauritian authorities. It is a niche tld. I forgot the country which owns it. :)
@Neelesh
According to Wiki, .mu is owned by Internet Direct Ltd & as far as I know ICTA hasn't got hold of it yet.
& yeah, .mu also stands for music or museum, that's why some bands are using it. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.mu
well as you can see i was downloading adobe @ 195 kb/s http://yasir03.online.fr/?p=59
Downloading on adobe @ 215kbps
microsoft@275kbps
I've downloaded a 850 prog on adobe in 1h55min only
You can also add
http://www.metacafe.com/
http://www.hulu.com/
http://www.southparkstudios.com/
@Anonymous
Wow! Metacafe & Hulu!!!! :)
Thanks!
thz for the metacafe :)
add: www.brothersoft.com
cya
@who?
Thanks for Brothersoft.com :)
www.nyse.com
www.celebtv.com
@who?
Thanks! :)
www.topgear.com/uk
@Muzzammil
Thanks a lot for TopGear.com!!!!
I didn't notice that their newly revamped site was now being hosted by Akamai!!!
This is incredible - all those videos will now be available without any lag!!! :D
top
add winamp
i get full speed on that too
@Anonymous
Added! :)
@carrotmadman6..
thaanks loads man.. i am starting to leech ur bandwidth ! hahahhaha lolzzz :))
can someone update me on the difference on speed only between my-t 512 and adsl 512?
thanks
@dragon
There is no speed difference between My.T 512 & ADSL 512 for international connections.
But for local connections (local servers like Akamai & Google as from next month), you'll be getting only 512k with ADSL 512k & 2Mbps with My.T.
:)
I am a bit outdated but why is Orange using different "routes" for its services?
And because of Akamai caching websites in Mauritius, any change in speed for MT's other services (internet everwhere) and competitors?
@dragon
It's because ADSL & My.T use 2 different technologies - My.T uses ADSL2, which allows a bandwidth of up to 4Mbps (2Mbps is reserved for IPTV).
For MT's other services & competitors, it depends on how they access the local servers.
For e.g., you may get full 1.8Mbps on Emtel HSDPA, but only 384kbps on Emtel 3G.
:)
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