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:
- 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 - Install the 2.1.0 webplayer
- Restart your browser
- 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 leave a comment about where you’re located and your average download speed, we’d greatly appreciate it!
flashplayer
julho 6, 2009 às 4:57 pmNice!
Danilo Isidoro
junho 30, 2009 às 8:59 pmI had torrent in the background and it got around 250kB/s total. It doesnt get much faster so it must be exelent.
São Paulo – Brazil
Lee
junho 29, 2009 às 5:41 pmAkamai download was 2 – 3 times faster than the downloads that did not use it.
Robert Kabwe
junho 28, 2009 às 5:44 amMontreal, Canada
Test #1: 2 seconds
Test #2: 6 seconds
PC Windows XP
Leepo
junho 27, 2009 às 11:59 amIt downloaded so fast that I couldn’t even check my top speed, it was over 1mb/s and probably hitting my max download speed of 1.6mb/s.
Holland
Greg
junho 27, 2009 às 2:31 amI’m in Texas. The download finished before I can click save. I’m at work though, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we have some Akamai servers here.
Nic Cusworth
junho 27, 2009 às 2:27 amAbout 400 Kilobytes per second on a 12mbit link here in Singapore. That’s really really good for here as the link speed means very little when it comes to download. So all in all blazingly fast in the S’pore.
Nic.
Henrik Jademyr
junho 26, 2009 às 11:35 pmIn sweden on 50Mb/s.
Downloaded 2.5.0 webplayer in about 3 seconds on avarage, so somewhere around 10Mb/s.
Ashkan Saeedi
junho 26, 2009 às 10:00 pmi have a 15KBps connection (to slow) but the download was not arroun 15K. it was 13.5 and 14kBps
location: iran
our nasty government limits the interent speed to 128kbps (16KBps) for home users and in this sensitive times it’s slower but i think this 1 or 2 k decrease is your problem.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/iran_stop_the_crackdown/?cl=260799252&v=3541
Rogerio Lima
junho 26, 2009 às 9:22 pmReally fast here in Brazil.
Neil
junho 26, 2009 às 8:57 pmgot between 1.9MB and 2.7MB a second on both downloads.
Both on Windows.
Location: Bournemouth, UK.
ak
junho 26, 2009 às 6:38 pmhong kong, around 540 kb/s, midnight. around the best speed for my connection.
cavalcadegames
junho 26, 2009 às 6:32 pm54 kbps here in the philippines. using a slow crappy connection though. its the best speed i get though so its fast. :) Windows machine
Joc
junho 26, 2009 às 6:28 pmFirst download took about 2 seconds at the most. I briefly saw 1.9MB a second flash up.
The update might have taken a second or more longer but not enough to notice.
Both on Mac
Custard Factory, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK