Apple TV buffering

[TheLostPacket]

If they want to I don't see why not we are friends after all.

If you got your kit they should have also received theirs by now otherwise soon

 

[smc]

Quad9 supports this on 9.9.9.11 (https://www.quad9.net/support/faq/#edns)

FYI, since I made this change, buffering has been much, much better for me (ISP - Mind the Speed). Apple TV is now usable again. Could be coincidence, of course, who knows what else may have changed.

 

[AfriNatic]

FYI, since I made this change, buffering has been much, much better for me (ISP - Mind the Speed). Apple TV is now usable again. Could be coincidence, of course, who knows what else may have changed.

Akamai has also removed AppleTV from Optinet/Mweb clusters due to complaints of poor streaming quality. They now serve this traffic over IXP if an ISP doesn't have an On-net cache.

 

[yogidabear]

@AfriNatic I use NextDNS with EDNS enabled, however vod-ap3-aoc.tv.apple.com resolves to

Name: a1936.dscw11.akamai.net
Address: 197.80.131.202
Name: a1936.dscw11.akamai.net
Address: 197.80.131.218

Should we make static entries for your apple cache, or do you redirect this?
Name: a1936.dscw11.akamai.net
Address: 169.1.4.154
Name: a1936.dscw11.akamai.net
Address: 169.1.4.147

 

[TheLostPacket]

@AfriNatic is your cache up yet ?

 

[AfriNatic]

@AfriNatic is your cache up yet ?

Not yet. I'm going to the DC tomorrow morning to install it.

 

[AfriNatic]

@AfriNatic I use NextDNS with EDNS enabled, however vod-ap3-aoc.tv.apple.com resolves to

Name: a1936.dscw11.akamai.net
Address: 197.80.131.202
Name: a1936.dscw11.akamai.net
Address: 197.80.131.218

Should we make static entries for your apple cache, or do you redirect this?
Name: a1936.dscw11.akamai.net
Address: 169.1.4.154
Name: a1936.dscw11.akamai.net
Address: 169.1.4.147

Setting static entries will work but I do not recommend it as the Akamai caches are a cluster of machines that work in a load-balanced way. Setting static entries will also cause an issue if that machine goes down.

 

[TheLostPacket]

Not yet. I'm going to the DC tomorrow morning to install it.

Oh ok cool, will you open it up for is CISP folks also ? As far as I know we are still waiting for ours also.

 

[LordPhoenix_ZA]

Not yet. I'm going to the DC tomorrow morning to install it.

How’d the install go?

 

[Vorastra]

Not yet. I'm going to the DC tomorrow morning to install it.

Do you just run all of Afrihost or something.

 

[AfriNatic]

How’d the install go?

Everything is installed but not online yet. The shipment was short 4 x QSFP modules. Apple is sending replacements. I was hoping to have it online and serving traffic already.

Do you just run all of Afrihost or something.

Haha no.

 

[smc]

FYI, since I made this change, buffering has been much, much better for me (ISP - Mind the Speed). Apple TV is now usable again. Could be coincidence, of course, who knows what else may have changed.

Oh well, looks like I spoke to soon. Back to unusable. Predicted 51 minutes to start watching!

 

[AfriNatic]

Oh well, looks like I spoke to soon. Back to unusable. Predicted 51 minutes to start watching!

We had to have Akamai remove Mweb/Optinet caches from our mapping as they are simply too unreliable and slow.

 

[LordPhoenix_ZA]

Everything is installed but not online yet. The shipment was short 4 x QSFP modules. Apple is sending replacements. I was hoping to have it online and serving traffic already.


Haha no.

Any ETA from Apple on the missing QSFP modules?

 

[Tim_vb]

ATV Superbad (4K) playing at a fuzzy 720p tonight

 

[Priapus]

Zero issues here - been fine for the last three weeks.

 

[neoprema]

Would @PBCool users be using the Mweb/Optinet caches or other ones? I find my Apple TV streaming at home to be spotty and it struggles sometimes on a 1.5Gbit line, but at office on a slower 200 line it’s fine.

 

[PBCool]

Would @PBCool users be using the Mweb/Optinet caches or other ones? I find my Apple TV streaming at home to be spotty and it struggles sometimes on a 1.5Gbit line, but at office on a slower 200 line it’s fine.

Apple peers locally, I'm not even certain if any Apple caches are live locally as yet to be honest. The performance depends on Apples transit, and possible packet loss.

 

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Would @PBCool users be using the Mweb/Optinet caches or other ones? I find my Apple TV streaming at home to be spotty and it struggles sometimes on a 1.5Gbit line, but at office on a slower 200 line it’s fine.

1.5Gbit? What FNO?

 

[neoprema]

1.5Gbit? What FNO?

Sorry, typo I mean the 1gbit was looking at something else when typing lol. It’s a 1000/250