For the uninformed, you will find Windows Update is free and some things like Solid Works service packs (which can easily be half a Gig).
Question: is it so that the first person to download a file that will be cashed in Alkami will pay for the data (because it is not yet cached) and then subsequent downloads not?
If data is pulled from the Akami boxes located in WxC then the traffic will be free, we will have no way of knowing what is actually cached at any one time.
Oh so not all data from Akamai will be free? Because last night I grabbed a trial from Adobe and is was using Akamai Download manager but when I checked my data usage it showed national data instead of local which I thought all Akamai data was.
If it's locally cached on the Akamai caches we have here then yes it will be free, if it's cached not on our network then it will be charged accrodingly
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not necessarily, it depends how their caches work. They might hold the download on the local wxc server for a while, or they might wait till 10 more people request the same link to justify it being stored on the local cache server
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