Facebook goes local

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Don't know if you guys/girls know. Facebook is now accessible on local only through the Akamai servers. :-) :D
 
This is probably a stupid question... but what do you mean by 'through the akamai servers'? Do I have to do something special to get to facebook locally or is it all automatic?
 
Go to a site or somethin'. Local only is coming to a demise anyways.
This would be a good title in 2008.
 
Wow, u wish to clarify, or are u trying to be vague...
 
Akamai provides web app acceleration and have data centers in carious vountries, like our own, to provide local access.
I don't have "local only" to test but maybe someone who does can try out www.facebook.co.za

Not so clued up on IP ranges but this seems local?
tracert www.facebook.co.za

Tracing route to a2047.w7.akamai.net [196.33.166.201]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
2 12 ms 11 ms 12 ms 196-210-xxx-xxx-tvwt-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.xxx.xxx]
3 28 ms 14 ms 14 ms cdsl1-rba-vl2460.ip.isnet.net [196.38.72.217]
4 14 ms 13 ms 14 ms cdsl1-rba-vl150.ip.isnet.net [196.38.73.17]
5 26 ms 14 ms 14 ms csw4-rba-gi5-2.ip.isnet.net [168.209.1.174]
6 14 ms 15 ms 14 ms a196-33-166-201.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [196.33.166.201]

Trace complete.
 
Xyber said:
Akamai provides web app acceleration and have data centers in carious vountries, like our own, to provide local access.
I don't have "local only" to test but maybe someone who does can try out www.facebook.co.za

Not so clued up on IP ranges but this seems local?
tracert www.facebook.co.za

Tracing route to a2047.w7.akamai.net [196.33.166.201]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
2 12 ms 11 ms 12 ms 196-210-xxx-xxx-tvwt-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.xxx.xxx]
3 28 ms 14 ms 14 ms cdsl1-rba-vl2460.ip.isnet.net [196.38.72.217]
4 14 ms 13 ms 14 ms cdsl1-rba-vl150.ip.isnet.net [196.38.73.17]
5 26 ms 14 ms 14 ms csw4-rba-gi5-2.ip.isnet.net [168.209.1.174]
6 14 ms 15 ms 14 ms a196-33-166-201.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [196.33.166.201]

Trace complete.
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That was done from a IS connection rights? Akamai has both SAIX/IS based servers here in South Africa.

196.33.166.201 is what IS users would get.
165.165.39.203 is what SAIX and other ISP's like cybersmart/Mweb/vodacom/MTN ect ect would get.
 
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griddy said:
:confused:

I can access the site but I can't log-in..


Looks like https://login.facebook.com/login.php?login_attempt=1 is not local

EDIT:BTW i'm on IS acc
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Nope its not. But Once logged in the rest is local.
 
So you can get to it on local and stay on it the whole day on local but you need Int to login ....... fscking FAIL !
 
hahaha, typical.. well.. if you log in on a seperate pay-as-you-go account and use your local bandwidth for browsing afterwards it could still be useful. still its a FAIL
 
lol.. How typical. People get something they didn't have in the start and they still complain. Just tick the remember me people, it's not that big of a deal..
 
Great news! So thats Google services (incl. Youtube) as well as Facebook now! The major browser bandwidth hoggers are now local :) No need anymore for expensive intl. bandwidth or international bandwidth discrimination
 
So when did google and YouTube become local? I missed this event? The last time I checked when I got capped on TelkomISP, with just local only, was that Google was not local at all--this was in march sometime.
 
So with the telkom 10gb local free thing we'll be seeing more people spend the whole day on FB.

cavedog said:
That was done from a IS connection right? Akamai has both SAIX/IS based servers here in South Africa.
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I think the akamai servers are in Mauritius. Still falls within the "local" area though so its all the same.
 
feo said:
Neither Google nor Youtube is local so I dunno where that came from.
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Actually, it is - depends which DNS server you use. It doesn't work for SAIX, but it works for IS (they're doing the trials) and a bit on TENET's network (universities) as well. The main pages require international, but most of the actual content (videos, maps, stuff like that) is retrieved through a local Google CDN mirror similar to AKAMAI.
 
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