<jerrymathers@asthebeaver.org> wrote in message
news:foudnaU8iZyhWyLYnZ2dnUVZ_uGjnZ2d@giganews.com ...
> Can't someone do me a solid and open TCPview for awhile, then open
> Firefox
> and IE, go to Google and MSN.com along with other sites and see if
> Akamai
> appears? I can't be the only one. I've done a half dozen security
> scans
> already and everything is clear.


So you expect every business, small or even large, to waste resources on
a worldwide load-balancing network of hosts for their network when
computers are not their main venue for revenue? Why do you think Akamai
and other providers exist? You want every user to also be their own
ISP, too, with their own DNS and DHCP servers and connect directly to
the backbones? You think you're the only customer of your ISP? You pay
someone else a portion of the cost they incur to provide a service to
MANY users. Microsoft is just *one* customer of Akamai.