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.
Chicago speeds and New York speeds.
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Re: Chicago speeds and New York speeds.
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Re: Chicago speeds and New York speeds.
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.
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.
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Re: Chicago speeds and New York speeds.
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.
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Re: Chicago speeds and New York speeds.
soja wrote: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
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