[Snap] Where do iTunes movie rentals stream from (US or NZ Local) ?

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#105210 29-Jun-2012 10:22

Hey Guys,

Does anybody know where the iTunes movies rentals come from?

Wondering if they stream from U.S or if there is a CDN in NZ locally?

I am having issues streaming movies via my VDSL2 connection (sometimes taking 2 hours to "pre-load" a film) or constantly stopping throughout to re-buffer

Speedtest results show 40mb down/10mb up to local auckland nodes . connection is stable with an uptime of 15 days so far

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#648055 29-Jun-2012 10:25

Last time I checked it's coming from Akamai in California / USA.
I also heard that Apple has moved their content from Akamai to their new Datacenters in the states.
I don't really want to hire another movie to test this theory again tho :P

Could explain the performance issues if it's coming over international transit ?

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#648059 29-Jun-2012 10:36

It should be local. What I've noticed is that a new release takes a few more minutes to download than a recent release - almost like I am the first one to pull it down to the local caches...

With my ISP (not Snap) a full movie takes about 10 minutes to download for me, but a brand new release sometimes takes 45 minutes.

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#648062 29-Jun-2012 10:38

Could you perhaps do a screenie of where the content is coming from if you do it on a windows box ?

From what I've been told there isn't any CDNs left in NZ that host this content unless it's TCL exclusive.

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#648064 29-Jun-2012 10:39

Hmmm. Could be then, since I am on TCL. Next time we get a movie will try and get a screenshot of connections.

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#648068 29-Jun-2012 10:42

What dns servers are you using? I was using Googles and could not stream any i-tunes movies, would take hours before they were ready to play on a Apple TV. Changed the dns servers and all my problems disappeared.

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#648070 29-Jun-2012 10:47

freitasm: Hmmm. Could be then, since I am on TCL. Next time we get a movie will try and get a screenshot of connections.

I believe the majority of trailers etc come fromt he same place too if that's any help :)

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#648071 29-Jun-2012 10:47

Using third party DNS is bad practice in New Zealand. You will get wrong CDN and caches, causing much disturbance in the force...

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#648072 29-Jun-2012 10:48

I am using Snap's main DNS Server address,

I even manually put it into the AppleTV 3 setup

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#648078 29-Jun-2012 10:59

I think they have local NZ servers I remember reading this somewhere but cant remember the detail. Like a sieve sometimes.