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2.17 GB!
by chachra 9y ago
2.17 GB!
- atonse 9y agoThis is just something I've never understood. What is taking up that 2.17GB??? Are they just recompiling every shared library or something? How is it that their updates (even on iOS) are so massive even if they don't include (or need to include) new graphics, etc.
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- Iknowsecurity 9y agoMeltdown and Spectre require recompiling... but it sounded they already did back in December. Did they lie?
- needusername 9y agoSo what? 30 sec download time.
- chachra 9y agoAnd a 30-40 minute install!
- Cu3PO42 9y agoOr multiple hours for those of us who are still plagued with slow internet at home. Luckily it's not that bad for me anymore, but I still sympathise with everyone with slow connection speeds, because you can't "just" download an update.
- needusername 9y agoI though most of the developed world is on 1 Gbit / 1 Gbit FTTH at this point.
- cmurf 9y agoWhy do you think this? The U.S. is among the worst in the "developed" world. More specifically it's highly fragmented. https://www.statista.com/statistics/616210/average-internet-connection-speed-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/616210/average-internet-... https://www.recode.net/2017/9/7/16264430/fastest-broadband-speeds-ookla-city-internet-service-provider https://www.recode.net/2017/9/7/16264430/fastest-broadband-s...
- mwilliaams 9y agoThat is utterly incorrect. I get 15% of that under ideal circumstances.
- quicklyfrozen 9y ago150Mb/s sounds pretty good...I get about 10% of that.
- mwilliaams 9y agoParent comment said 1Gbit, not 1Gbyte. I too get about 15Mb/s
- bigiain 9y agoInteresting definition of "developed"... I'm in Sydney, at home my fastest option is ADSL2+ which gets me 15-16Mbit on a good day (7-8 if it's rained much recently...) My ISP contacted me mid last year to offer pre-signups for our "National Broadband Network" on Sept 4th. A couple of months ago it became public that the old HFC cables they were planning to use were completely not up to the task, with major problems reported pretty much everywhere it'd already been rolled out, and they've now stopped and new HFC rollout using that (Optus) coax for at least 9 months. I _think_ Sydney Australia counts as "the developed world", but even 100Mbit for me right now is at least a year away...
- ldrndll 9y agoFunnily enough, I had 100mbps fibre when I lived in Africa. Now that I live in the UK my best option is 12mbps ADSL.
- bigiain 9y agoSlow internet and/or multiple macOS devices... (3 Apple laptops, 2 mac minis, and an iMac hanging off my ADSL...)
- infogulch 9y agoThe ability for windows 10 updates to be shared across computers in a network (signatures are still verified of course) doesn't sound so bad in cases like this.
- josh64 9y agoHigh Sierra has an option for a Mac to cache updates and serve them over the local network to other macs. This feature used to only be in macOS Server but is now in normal macOS too.
- bigiain 9y agoReally? Cool! Thans for pointing it out. (goes googling for how to make sure I'm using this...)
- na85 9y agoFor you, maybe. Attitudes like this are why it's okay for websites to have a 1 MB javascript payload.
- atonse 9y agoA lot fewer people complain about a 1 MB image payload than they do about a 1MB js payload. Why is that?
- ITsmeagain1 9y agoSierra update is 731MB. See https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1956?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1956?viewlocale=en_US&locale=... BTW... not sure why the downloaded file is actually downloaded on _http_
- lumisota 9y agoApple's signing the updates anyway; HTTP will be much more performant.
- kalleboo 9y agoHTTP probably helps admins of large networks cache downloads for their 5000 computers that are all updating at once (if they're not running Apple's update cache server)
- willstrafach 9y agoThis is also how Apple’s cache server works, otherwise it would need to break the TLS connection, and that is not an improvement. I have personally looked at the accompanying connections and it looks like Apple sends hashes over a proper TLS connection. Updates are also signed as another layer of security.