Akami is a company that sells distribution service to other companies. They have their own private network in which they distribute other companies data all over the Internet. When you go to one of the Akami hosted sites, Akami's servers will use your IP address and send you to the "nearest" Akami site that's publicly visable on the Internet.

When everything works, people get extremely fast responses from the company's web site. But if there a probem, it will mysterously work and fail. I don't know who at Nokia to bring this attention to this. IT would help is they had the public IP address that you are using and the output of the followig command in the X-terminal.

nslookup downloads.maemo.nokia.com