Introduction

Automatic updates are large and may chew through your IP quota very quickly. Because of this, CSE has software update mirrors for both Microsoft Windows and Apple OSX, so any traffic from these servers will not be deducted from your quota.

Windows

If you visit this page, you will find full instructions on how to configure your Windows install to point to the CSE mirror.

Mac OSX

In order to reconfigure software updates to point to the CSE mirror, all you need to do is bring up a terminal, and enter the following command (this must all be on one line):

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL http://persephone.cse.unsw.edu.au:8088/content/catalogs/index.sucatalog

After this, you can perform the software update as per usual. Make sure that it is trying to contact persephone.cse.unsw.edu.au when it is connecting.

If you need to revert to getting Software Updates from the Apple servers, use the following command:

sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL