Windows update fails on local

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I normally use my 30GB Saix local bandwidth to reinstall and update Windows when I'm capped. Today I'm getting error code 80072EFE on Vista and 80072EE2 on Seven when trying to update - seems to indicate that the update servers can't be found. Never had a problem through in the past since the updates are on local Akamai servers. I downloaded Office 2010 yesterday, no problem. Anyone else experienced the same?
 
Partially, half my updates could be fetched but not the other half (on win7). Who is your ISP? I was using a TelkomInternet account.
 
Long time since I've done this, but I actually took the plunge and phoned MS SA. After 45 minutes of troubleshooting the tech determined, in consultation with fellow colleagues, that you cannot do updates with local bandwidth :( I tried to explain that I do this on a regular basis and that the updates are sitting on local Akamai servers, but that didn't impress at all. She suggested that I wait until the first of Jan and waste my precious intl bw...
 
This sucks. Some of those updates are huge.

/Switches off automatic updates
 
Maybe its just not mirrored on akamai yet?

I doubt that MS has plans to switch to anything other than akamai.
 
OK, escalated this at MS and the answer is that the mirrored Windows updates on Akamai servers are provided by TI NOT by MS! Perhaps I have never taken notice on the forums, always thought that MS supplied the service. Of course TI support thinks you're swearing at them when you say Akamai ;-)
 
DearHeart said:
OK, escalated this at MS and the answer is that the mirrored Windows updates on Akamai servers are provided by TI NOT by MS! Perhaps I have never taken notice on the forums, always thought that MS supplied the service. Of course TI support thinks you're swearing at them when you say Akamai ;-)
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It doesn't make much sense that Telkom would provide Windows updates (for IS customers too) when MS are the ones paying Akamai for the service.

So is the answer just that TI have gone on holiday so no one is adding the new updates to Akamai?
 
DearHeart said:
OK, escalated this at MS and the answer is that the mirrored Windows updates on Akamai servers are provided by TI NOT by MS!
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I find this hard to believe. I could have sworn its a service managed by MS.

If TI are now it then its a wonder we get any updates!! :(
 
Kaufies said:
This sucks. Some of those updates are huge.
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no kidding, Dreamscene for Vista's content is over 700MB:sick: funny how everything got so fat and bloated. i mean, look at drivers 199 meg for video ...67 meg for audio! remember back when your whole setup altogether came to less than 500KB? But our caps increase too slowly to catch up
 
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As vensters and greg said, doesn't make much sense to me either that TI does the mirroring. I used a debugging proxy to see where the updates come from:

tracert download.windowsupdate.com

Tracing route to a26.ms.akamai.net [196.33.166.201] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms <1 ms Billion.400G [10.0.0.2]
2 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms dsl-146-208-01.telkomadsl.co.za [165.146.208.1]
3 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms rrba-ip-lir-1-gig-0-0-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.8.198]
4 9 ms 8 ms 8 ms 196.43.25.138
5 9 ms 10 ms 8 ms internet-solutions-gw.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.25.127.182]
6 10 ms 10 ms 9 ms csw4-rba-gi8-4.ip.isnet.net [196.26.0.249]
7 9 ms 10 ms 8 ms a196-33-166-201.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [196.33.166.201]

Trace complete.

:whistle:

And a while later:

Tracing route to a26.ms.akamai.net [165.165.39.202]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms <1 ms Billion.400G [10.0.0.2]
2 9 ms 8 ms 9 ms dsl-146-208-01.telkomadsl.co.za [165.146.208.1]
3 9 ms 9 ms 8 ms rrba-ip-lir-1-gig-0-0-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.8.198]
4 9 ms 8 ms 9 ms 196.43.26.106
5 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms rrba-akamai-202.telkom-ipnet.co.za [165.165.39.02]

Trace complete.
 
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For those that dont understand, myself included. What does those tracert results mean :o
 
I had no clue you can download windows updates using local! Whoop whoop!! Worked for me :)

I'm new to the ADSL scene what other tricks are there with regards to using local bandwith?? I want to use my alloted local for it's full potential and i see guys here can download quite a bit? movies, music etc??
 
Remydp said:
I'm new to the ADSL scene what other tricks are there with regards to using local bandwith?? I want to use my alloted local for it's full potential and i see guys here can download quite a bit? movies, music etc??
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This should help you out. Feel free to use Google as well.
 
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