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Discussion in 'Announcements' started by Samantha, Jun 26, 2009.

  1. Samantha

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    Everyone knows the internet is made up of a series of tubes. Since Unity has such a strong internet component in the webplayer, nothing but the fastest of all tubes are acceptable to deliver Unity webplayers to you and your players.

    To harness the power of these tubes, Unity Tech has begun working with a content delivery service called Akamai. Akamai provides server mirrors with fast connections around the world in order to make sure your downloads are as speedy as possible. They do this for lots of big, well-known companies that you can see on their web site: http://www.akamai.com/html/customers/index.html

    Because this download service affects users globally, we’d like everyone to help us make sure there are no kinks in the system. If you can spare a moment, we have two tests for you to run.

    Test #1: Download the Unity 2.5.0 webplayer installer through Akamai:

    * For Mac: http://webplayer2.unity3d.com/download_webplayer-2.x/webplayer-universal.dmg
    * For Windows: http://webplayer2.unity3d.com/download_webplayer-2.x/UnityWebPlayer.exe

    Test #2: Auto-update from 2.1.0 to 2.5.0 using Akamai

    Steps:
    1) Download the 2.1.0 webplayer (not using the Akamai service)
    * For Mac: http://unity3d.com/download_archived_webplayer/2.1.0/webplayer-universal.dmg
    * For Windows: http://unity3d.com/download_archived_webplayer/2.1.0/UnityWebPlayer.exe
    2) Install the 2.1.0 webplayer
    3) Restart your browser
    4) Visit this url to auto-update using Akamai: http://beta.unity3d.com/AkamaiTest/

    Both test #1 and #2 should be blazing fast. If you can, please post your location and average download speed, we’d greatly appreciate it!
     
    Samantha, Jun 26, 2009
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  2. burnumd

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    Blazing fast, indeed:
    < 1s for both tests in Bloomington, IN, USA (vs. about a minute for the non-Akamai 2.1.0 dl).
     
    burnumd, Jun 26, 2009
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  3. nickavv

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    Wow, that was seriously fast!
     
    nickavv, Jun 26, 2009
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  4. Merries

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    Very very fast, it opened, I blinked it was done. Less then 1 sec from Leesburg VA.
     
    Merries, Jun 26, 2009
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  5. AaronC

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    30 secs in NZ, stll super fast, about 450kb/s

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    AaronC, Jun 27, 2009
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  6. Dreamora

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    the files are too small to test it usefully on my 20mbit connection here from switzerland, can't get above 800kb/s as even the webplayer exe is that small that its done before the "connection warmup" has been gone through ^^

    Definitely an interesting platform to know off :)
     
    Dreamora, Jun 27, 2009
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  7. dmorrill

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    Seemed to max out at around 250 KB/s, which on my 2Mb/s service means it was pretty well 100% saturated.

    My location is Cebu, Philippines.
     
    dmorrill, Jul 1, 2009
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