Started the day with a call from a client's intern, a bit full of himself: "Hey, you need to fix this... the network is pretty slow this morning, can you check?"
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Started the day with a call from a client's intern, a bit full of himself: "Hey, you need to fix this... the network is pretty slow this morning, can you check?"
I take a look: lots of local IPs pulling heavy data from Apple servers. Me: "macOS 26.3 just dropped, are all your Macs updating at once?"
Him: "Well, obviously. It's an important update. We're doing our iPhones and iPads simultaneously too."That’s 27 devices updating at the same time on a connection that caps out physically at 60 Mbps.
I explain the bottleneck.
His reply: "Can't you just ask Apple to use 'extra bandwidth' to push them through? They need to be done by 09:30 because that's when the real work starts and we want updated machines."Me, confused: "No. However, I can prioritize work traffic and throttle the updates to use the leftover bandwidth. But they will definitely not be done by 09:30."
I broke his brain.
He kept insisting on "extra bandwidth" as if it were a premium feature to toggle on demand.
I explained that in their case, bandwidth is a physical limit (FTTC degraded to 60 Mbps), not a software cap, and certainly not controlled by Apple.He finally understood, thanked me, and closed with a cryptic gem: "Sorry, I'm not an IT guy, but by now I've learned that tech products usually have limits imposed by price, not by physics, which are usually way ahead."
Basically, the technical limitations of the past have been overcome, only to be replaced by commercial ones.
And they call it evolution...
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Started the day with a call from a client's intern, a bit full of himself: "Hey, you need to fix this... the network is pretty slow this morning, can you check?"
I take a look: lots of local IPs pulling heavy data from Apple servers. Me: "macOS 26.3 just dropped, are all your Macs updating at once?"
Him: "Well, obviously. It's an important update. We're doing our iPhones and iPads simultaneously too."That’s 27 devices updating at the same time on a connection that caps out physically at 60 Mbps.
I explain the bottleneck.
His reply: "Can't you just ask Apple to use 'extra bandwidth' to push them through? They need to be done by 09:30 because that's when the real work starts and we want updated machines."Me, confused: "No. However, I can prioritize work traffic and throttle the updates to use the leftover bandwidth. But they will definitely not be done by 09:30."
I broke his brain.
He kept insisting on "extra bandwidth" as if it were a premium feature to toggle on demand.
I explained that in their case, bandwidth is a physical limit (FTTC degraded to 60 Mbps), not a software cap, and certainly not controlled by Apple.He finally understood, thanked me, and closed with a cryptic gem: "Sorry, I'm not an IT guy, but by now I've learned that tech products usually have limits imposed by price, not by physics, which are usually way ahead."
Basically, the technical limitations of the past have been overcome, only to be replaced by commercial ones.
And they call it evolution...
So I was working at a pharma company at some point
They got some +20 new people each month, each issued a new phone and laptop.
They were security minded, so logins needed MFA, of course, and they should.
MFA required updated software on phone and laptop also had updates to do....
Putting a switch on a table and cable the laptops was NOT allowed, doesn't look good ....
So about every month they complained about Gb's of downloads blocking the meeting area.
At least we tried
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Started the day with a call from a client's intern, a bit full of himself: "Hey, you need to fix this... the network is pretty slow this morning, can you check?"
I take a look: lots of local IPs pulling heavy data from Apple servers. Me: "macOS 26.3 just dropped, are all your Macs updating at once?"
Him: "Well, obviously. It's an important update. We're doing our iPhones and iPads simultaneously too."That’s 27 devices updating at the same time on a connection that caps out physically at 60 Mbps.
I explain the bottleneck.
His reply: "Can't you just ask Apple to use 'extra bandwidth' to push them through? They need to be done by 09:30 because that's when the real work starts and we want updated machines."Me, confused: "No. However, I can prioritize work traffic and throttle the updates to use the leftover bandwidth. But they will definitely not be done by 09:30."
I broke his brain.
He kept insisting on "extra bandwidth" as if it were a premium feature to toggle on demand.
I explained that in their case, bandwidth is a physical limit (FTTC degraded to 60 Mbps), not a software cap, and certainly not controlled by Apple.He finally understood, thanked me, and closed with a cryptic gem: "Sorry, I'm not an IT guy, but by now I've learned that tech products usually have limits imposed by price, not by physics, which are usually way ahead."
Basically, the technical limitations of the past have been overcome, only to be replaced by commercial ones.
And they call it evolution...
for an all-apple shop, it might make sense to set up content caching https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/intro-to-content-caching-depde72e125f/web -- as I understand it, it requires an apple computer (big surprise), but you can apparently set it up to act as a local cache server inside the network
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Started the day with a call from a client's intern, a bit full of himself: "Hey, you need to fix this... the network is pretty slow this morning, can you check?"
I take a look: lots of local IPs pulling heavy data from Apple servers. Me: "macOS 26.3 just dropped, are all your Macs updating at once?"
Him: "Well, obviously. It's an important update. We're doing our iPhones and iPads simultaneously too."That’s 27 devices updating at the same time on a connection that caps out physically at 60 Mbps.
I explain the bottleneck.
His reply: "Can't you just ask Apple to use 'extra bandwidth' to push them through? They need to be done by 09:30 because that's when the real work starts and we want updated machines."Me, confused: "No. However, I can prioritize work traffic and throttle the updates to use the leftover bandwidth. But they will definitely not be done by 09:30."
I broke his brain.
He kept insisting on "extra bandwidth" as if it were a premium feature to toggle on demand.
I explained that in their case, bandwidth is a physical limit (FTTC degraded to 60 Mbps), not a software cap, and certainly not controlled by Apple.He finally understood, thanked me, and closed with a cryptic gem: "Sorry, I'm not an IT guy, but by now I've learned that tech products usually have limits imposed by price, not by physics, which are usually way ahead."
Basically, the technical limitations of the past have been overcome, only to be replaced by commercial ones.
And they call it evolution...
@stefano I wonder why cant you just install extra bandwidth from the AppStore
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@stefano I wonder why cant you just install extra bandwidth from the AppStore
@acirep "the best bandwidth ever!"
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@acirep "the best bandwidth ever!"
@stefano "AI enabled fully on blockchain and for free"
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@h4890 True. It's our task and "duty" to show them how things really are.
