Chicago speeds and New York speeds.

[soja]

Its called HFC or a Hybrid Fiber Coax system, versus FTTH or Fiber to the Home.

Apple uses akamai, and Sony uses Limelight from what I have seen. Regardless of who they use, both CDN's are easily able to deliver more than 250Mbps to your or my house, but im pretty sure Sony is artificially capping it. Sony may get billed differently based on how much throughput they use versus a flat per GB fee.

[Elochai]

Yeah HFC is what I'm on.

From doing a trace, Sony comes up using Akamai in Ontario for me, as of late I have notice steam in using them in Toronto as well, yet my speeds are pretty good with them but could be better. Apple just flyes by when steaming a movie, with in a min or two the bar is filled and the movie is playing from the internal 8GB drive inside the Apple TV.

Oh well at least I'm getting a speed fast enough to support PlayStation NOW services, as I hear a lot of people can't even use it because they can't get a steady connection to the servers.

[soja]

The web servers are different from their content servers. When you do a packet capture or watch the traffic on a ps4 when actually downloading a game it resolves to limelight for me.

[Elochai]

The web servers are different from their content servers. When you do a packet capture or watch the traffic on a ps4 when actually downloading a game it resolves to limelight for me.

Gets weird now, I wanted to test while downloading a game to see where it connects too. So I'm downloading Firewatch and I go into the router and do a ns look up and a trace route on the PlayStation address for the download server. What I get back is a server runned by my ISP all the way in Vancouver.

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Server:    208.67.222.222
Address 1: 208.67.222.222 resolver1.opendns.com

Name:      ps4-system.sec.np.dl.playstation.net
Address 1: 209.148.205.8 cal58-3-205-8.dynamic.rogerstelecom.net
Address 2: 209.148.205.18 cal58-3-205-18.dynamic.rogerstelecom.net
 

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traceroute to ps4-system.sec.np.dl.playstation.net (209.148.205.18), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  7.11.163.189 (7.11.163.189)  18.143 ms  19.515 ms  14.239 ms
 2  66.185.89.233 (66.185.89.233)  51.305 ms  35.244 ms  39.874 ms
 3  van58-9-229-149.dynamic.rogerstelecom.net (209.148.229.149)  45.389 ms  45.309 ms  55.697 ms
 4  van58-9-229-245.dynamic.rogerstelecom.net (209.148.229.245)  55.603 ms  61.618 ms  56.156 ms
 5  van58-9-229-229.dynamic.rogerstelecom.net (209.148.229.229)  64.121 ms  62.827 ms  64.010 ms
 6  van58-9-230-205.dynamic.rogerstelecom.net (209.148.230.205)  69.227 ms  70.129 ms  68.419 ms
 7  van58-9-230-250.dynamic.rogerstelecom.net (209.148.230.250)  75.127 ms  64.362 ms  63.693 ms
 8  cal58-3-205-18.dynamic.rogerstelecom.net (209.148.205.18)  58.854 ms  59.949 ms  56.199 ms