* Brett Glass <squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [20050628 22:43]: wrote: > At 10:40 AM 6/28/2005, Richard 'toast' Russo wrote: > > > Not that this solves the general problem, but for your specific case, > > have you approached Akamai to request they put one of their caches in > > your facility? > > Two or three times. And each time, they blew us off. Apparently, while they > deployed servers at some small and medium sized ISPs' sites during the .com boom, > they will now no longer locate servers at your site unless you are very large. > They won't even tell you their criteria for deeming you worthy of their presence. > Their attitude seems to be, "Don't call us; we'll call you." > > In short, they've put themselves at odds with small ISPs. We would not use > or recommend them. Hello Brett, Looks like someone from Microsoft reads this list for ideas and happened to see your long post. They now have addressed your windows update problem - files being overly big, by releasing a patch yesterday: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/KB898461 I believe this does not pull the rag from under your feet because the issues you addressed really need to be addressed. -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ "Amnesia used to be my favorite word, but then I forgot it."
