Microsoft Security Patches

[fanusj]

I was wondering if Microsoft South Africa has a local patch caching server ? Does anybody know ? If so, how do I get my XP PC to point to the local cache to download the the monthly patch releases ?

Surely the patch downloads must cause a huge surge on the net, especially South Africa's scarce international bandwidth.

 

[HavocXphere]

Microsoft sues all non-Microsoft patch mirrors and there are no MS patch servers in SA. However, the akamai servers mirror microsoft content (with MS permission), so most MS downloads work over local-only adsl. Thats for downloads (service pack etc) but not for the update function built into your OS.

i.e. Use a download manager like freee download manager to start the download with intl cap. Then connect to local-only via PPPoE and then continue the rest of the download on local-only. Or set up routesentry.

 

[fanusj]

Put preasure on Microsoft SA

Thanks for the reply. Perhaps its time that we start putting preasure on MS to fix this.

 

[gregmcc]

all MS downloads use akamai - it should be a local only download.

If MS relied only on one source they'd have a DDos attack every patch tuesday with hundreds of millions of patches being downloaded.

 

[medicnick83]

Thanks for the reply. Perhaps its time that we start putting preasure on MS to fix this.

Yeah, you have fun doing this... let me know how it works out for ya