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Tried 3 games today ... Finished NONE

• petervcpt 1,013 Posts

  Fri, Sep 4 2015 5:47 AM

  Hi all

  I've got a reasonable amount of experience in IT and how the Internet works. I work for an ISP as a systems engineer, specialising in BGP, interconnects and general routing.

  I think it was PhiEaglesFan in another thread a few weeks ago, who gave a pretty accurate description of how WGT delivers content to all of us.

  They utilise a Content Delivery Network company, which basically means they pay another company who has a global presence, to deliver their content to us via "local" servers.

  The elephant in the room is this:

  Why don't WGT use Akamai? More than 30% of the global Internet traffic is delivered via Akamai. Including all your Microsoft updates, Call Of Duty games etc etc.

  So...is it a cost thing? Or is it a stupidity thing?

  It's not your connection. It's not whether you are connected via wireless to your ADSL router or via ethernet. It's not your upstream provider. It's not your contention ratio. It's not the country you live in.

  It's how the content is delivered.

  Why don't WGT use Akamai? That is the question everyone should be asking.

  Regards,

  Peter

• 9,041 Posts

  Fri, Sep 4 2015 8:52 PM

  petervcpt:

  Why don't WGT use Akamai?

  Cause we BETA boys.............

• spaceghost88 1,624 Posts

  Fri, Sep 4 2015 9:04 PM

  Multi player games are very buggy WGT please do more reserch into why this happins and clear up the disconnect and crash problems.

  You have a great fun game but its very hard to have fun when you play a 18 hole round with 4 people and crashes on hole 16 and everyone losses passes and points not to mention time!

  

  PaLease Help us with this tell us what we can do to help!  I was not able do rt click a screen report or i would have.

  Thanks for your help fingers crossed.

  DA GHOST N CREW AT GDBN CC

• petervcpt 1,013 Posts

  Sat, Sep 5 2015 1:39 AM

  alcaucin:

  petervcpt:

  Why don't WGT use Akamai?

  Cause we BETA boys.............

  LOL!

  Yeah, they really are rocking that beta thang.

• DoctorEagle 1,312 Posts

  Sun, Sep 6 2015 2:21 PM

  My game freezes & then never responds / crashes when I click continue on certain hole changes.

  Pretty sure it's because of the advertisements, possibly just the Mazda one. A similar error happened when WGT first started advertising but to a lesser extent. I am on an older o/s but I double checked to be sure my flash was updated. Please help.

   

  Ps. not sure if anyone mentioned this because i don't want to read all the comments.

• CanineSupervisor 1,882 Posts

  Sun, Sep 6 2015 6:24 PM

  petervcpt:

  Why don't WGT use Akamai?

  They do use Akamai for content delivery. 

  just sayin'...

• cedriver 1,012 Posts

  Sun, Sep 6 2015 6:34 PM

  ya, wgt is awful. worse now than ever. cant play w anybody. jus have to play w myself. lol

• drmoose 3,543 Posts

  Sun, Sep 6 2015 6:42 PM

  
  Pretty sure WGT uses another content server called "Effemall", as the results speak for themselves.

  Doc :)

• Dogget 20 Posts

  Sun, Sep 6 2015 7:03 PM

  Akamai is involved in a landmark patent case!  (The result of that case will help someone I'm pretty familiar with.)

• petervcpt 1,013 Posts

  Sun, Sep 6 2015 10:15 PM

  CanineSupervisor:

  petervcpt:

  Why don't WGT use Akamai?

  They do use Akamai for content delivery. 

  just sayin'...

  Hey CS

  You're correct!

  I just did a traceroute to media5.wgt.com and it resolves to a node in Nap Africa, within a data centre in Teraco, which is where Akamai hosts their servers

  EDIT: In South Africa.

  That has certainly been a very recent change, which bodes well for the game.

  Thanks for pointing that out :-)

  Cheers,

  Peter