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Originally Posted by Rik
I use Luton proxies transparently and im downloading Service Pack 1 for Server 2003 from www.microsoft.com at 360KBS 
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It could already be cached, or it may well be (OK, I'd be very surprised if it wasn't the case!) that MS use a form of global content delivery network where they have download servers all over the world and MS' download web sites will always redirect you to the closest fastest-responding server. Proxies are often used for this function as well as they are usually much faster and more resilient than web server farms.
You can tell which actual servers are being used by using 'netstat' which will list all of your connections. This method won't work of course if you are manually specifying a proxy.
I'll be happy to run tests using wget on any URLs that ppl list - although it really is quite simple and more meaningful to do the tests yourself.
