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Ask HN: Is anyone keeping statistics about internet usage during COVID-19?
As many countries are in lockdown it will be really interesting to see some usage data....
- liamdiprose 7y agoGoogle tracks how many people connect with IPv6, which is a metric for how many people are staying at home: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html IPv6 connections peak in the weekend and over the Christmas break, when people are connecting from home.
- twunde 7y agoCloudflare's blog posts about COVID-19 impact on the internet is a good starting place: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-during-the-coronavirus-emergency/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-during-the-coronaviru... and https://blog.cloudflare.com/covid-19-impacts-on-internet-traffic-seattle-italy-and-south-korea/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/covid-19-impacts-on-internet-tra...
- jgrahamc 7y agoYes, we are. We are watching it very carefully. What do you want to know?
- toomuchtodo 7y agoWhat's the delta in average daily throughput and peaks at your exchange points at different COVID milestones (China quarantine, Italy quarantine, France quarantine, US national emergency declared)? I assume traffic utilization has jumped, just curious by how much.
- jgrahamc 7y agoWe are publishing data on our blog: https://blog.cloudflare.com/covid-19-impacts-on-internet-traffic-seattle-italy-and-south-korea/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/covid-19-impacts-on-internet-tra... Stay tuned.
- Zardoz84 7y agoI only can say that I read that the major internet service providers on Spain are nearly at the limit of what can handle.
- uint16_t 7y agohttps://www.de-cix.net/en/locations/germany/frankfurt/statistics https://www.de-cix.net/en/locations/germany/frankfurt/statis...
- uint16_t 7y agoMost CIX do have a statistics website. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_exchange_points_by_size https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_exchange_poin... https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet-Knoten#Tabelle_internationaler_Internet-Knoten_(CIX)_(nach_Datenverkehr_sortiert) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet-Knoten#Tabelle_intern...
- austincheney 7y agoMy gigabit home internet was consistently up/down at 890-920mbps but since the outbreak it is only at 490-510mbps. :(