Grooveshark uses local bandwidth

[dshutts]

Forgive me if this is old news, but I searched the forum and could not find.

Grooveshark uses akamai to deliver its music around the world, so all the streaming comes over local bandwidth.

I have yet to not find a song I have searched for. Even better is that no advertisers seem to have signed on to broadcast ads in SA, so the free service has (in my experience of hours of solidly listening) NO ADS!

So you are basically getting the paid service, on local bandwidth.

Obviously one needs a traffic splitting option to make the initial connection but otherwise it is all local and blindingly fast!

 

[InTheCube]

Obviously one needs a traffic splitting option to make the initial connection but otherwise it is all local and blindingly fast!

Or you could use SAINET who have split billing for local (R9.50 per GB) and international (R29.50 per GB), all linked to the same PPPOE connection, customer account and bill.

 

[LazyLion]

How do you know it works on local?

Flagfox tells me it is hosted in the USA....

http://geotool.flagfox.net/?ip=97.65.22.117&host=listen.grooveshark.com

 

[drukkie]

maybe you are chowing international BW dude

 

[InTheCube]

How do you know it works on local?

Flagfox tells me it is hosted in the USA....

http://geotool.flagfox.net/?ip=97.65.22.117&host=listen.grooveshark.com

It could be hosted overseas, and whois queries would indicate that, but the content could still be mirrored locally, using some form of DNS redirect? Or maybe the mirroring functionality is built into the web application?

 

[HavocXphere]

How do you know it works on local?

Flagfox tells me it is hosted in the USA....

http://geotool.flagfox.net/?ip=97.65.22.117&host=listen.grooveshark.com

Site and content hosting are separate options on akamai. You can take just one or both.

 

[LazyLion]

Ja, but surely then Flagfox will show me a South African flag if it is accessible from within South Africa?

It does with all the other local sites.

 

[HavocXphere]

Ja, but surely then Flagfox will show me a South African flag if it is accessible from within South Africa?

It does with all the other local sites.

Your not hearing what I'm saying.

Grooveshark website -> Not local
Grooveshark streaming -> Local

Flagfox looks at the website portion. OP is talking about streaming portion. Thats why OP is saying you need traffic splitting.

C:\Users\HX>ping akamai.grooveshark.com

Pinging a1961.g.akamai.net [165.165.39.216] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from [B]165.165.39.216[/B]: bytes=32 time=569ms TTL=56
Reply from 165.165.39.216: bytes=32 time=638ms TTL=56
Reply from 165.165.39.216: bytes=32 time=677ms TTL=56

C:\Users\HX>ping grooveshark.com

Pinging grooveshark.com [97.65.22.117] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from [B]97.65.22.117[/B]: bytes=32 time=1211ms TTL=51
Reply from 97.65.22.117: bytes=32 time=1249ms TTL=51

 

[Pada]

Where are the content coming from? If its coming from listen.grooveshark.com then its definitely not hosted locally!

 

[dshutts]

Monitoring my interfaces, all streaming is definitely coming through on the local account from a local IP. The orignal control is loaded from an international host, but from then on it is all through akamai. If I was chowing my int bw, my 5 GB account would not be sitting at 2GB usage while my local sits at 20GB.