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Its most likely the combination of lots of people working from home and people in retail/etc sitting at home mid day streaming content so now the peak time is a

Its most likely the combination of lots of people working from home and people in retail/etc sitting at home mid day streaming content so now the peak time is all day.

mdasen 7y ago
Not according to BT (British Telecom): https://newsroom.bt.com/the-facts-about-our-network-and-coronavirus/ https://newsroom.bt.com/the-facts-about-our-network-and-coro... They've seen a 35-60% increase in daytime traffic, but it's still only half of what they're seeing in the evenings and nowhere near their network capacity. AT&T has noted that their network traffic is up only 27% (https://about.att.com/pages/COVID-19.html https://about.att.com/pages/COVID-19.html). I'm not saying that it isn't reasonable to lower streaming quality (a luxury item) at a time when the internet has become an even more critical link in our well-being - be that economic, social, or even physical as information on the physical danger gets transmitted over it. It's also reasonable to guess that there are a lot of people at home streaming content mid-day. However, the data seems to indicate that while daytime usage is up, it's still well below evening peaks and the increase in traffic isn't as huge as many people are probably thinking.
- kjakm 7y ago
  BT may claim it is nowhere near their capacity but everybody on my team has seen really noticeably degradation in home internet performance over the last couple of weeks (this includes people who work from home daily).
  - reallydontask 7y ago
    That BT link seems to only mention bandwidth and not latency (only skimmed it tbf) FWIW, my ping seems to have more than doubled to about 30 ms while download and upload speed seems unaffected but i'm with VM
  - C1sc0cat 7y ago
    And which home internet is that? - or have your co-workers brought from one of the cheaper providers. That is assuming the bottle neck is not caused by wifi - if there are others using the wifi spectrum kids partner, neighbours etc - that could explain it
  - GordonS 7y ago
    Do you use a VPN? Lots of companies do, and have had to quickly buy new license, and are finding out they don't have the network capacity to handle all their employees working from home.
fahrradflucht 7y ago
Judging from DE-CIX Frankfurt stats [0], there is still a peak, but normal day time level is now above, what was the peak 2 weeks ago. [0]: https://www.de-cix.net/en/locations/germany/frankfurt/statistics https://www.de-cix.net/en/locations/germany/frankfurt/statis...
- Polylactic_acid 7y ago
  I wonder why the peak went up from sept to oct. I don't remember anything interesting happening back then.

Its most likely the combination of lots of people working from home and people in retail/etc sitting at home mid day streaming content so now the peak time is all day.

mdasen 7y ago

Not according to BT (British Telecom): https://newsroom.bt.com/the-facts-about-our-network-and-coronavirus/ https://newsroom.bt.com/the-facts-about-our-network-and-coro... They've seen a 35-60% increase in daytime traffic, but it's still only half of what they're seeing in the evenings and nowhere near their network capacity. AT&T has noted that their network traffic is up only 27% (https://about.att.com/pages/COVID-19.html https://about.att.com/pages/COVID-19.html). I'm not saying that it isn't reasonable to lower streaming quality (a luxury item) at a time when the internet has become an even more critical link in our well-being - be that economic, social, or even physical as information on the physical danger gets transmitted over it. It's also reasonable to guess that there are a lot of people at home streaming content mid-day. However, the data seems to indicate that while daytime usage is up, it's still well below evening peaks and the increase in traffic isn't as huge as many people are probably thinking.

kjakm 7y ago
BT may claim it is nowhere near their capacity but everybody on my team has seen really noticeably degradation in home internet performance over the last couple of weeks (this includes people who work from home daily).
- reallydontask 7y ago
  That BT link seems to only mention bandwidth and not latency (only skimmed it tbf) FWIW, my ping seems to have more than doubled to about 30 ms while download and upload speed seems unaffected but i'm with VM
- C1sc0cat 7y ago
  And which home internet is that? - or have your co-workers brought from one of the cheaper providers. That is assuming the bottle neck is not caused by wifi - if there are others using the wifi spectrum kids partner, neighbours etc - that could explain it
- GordonS 7y ago
  Do you use a VPN? Lots of companies do, and have had to quickly buy new license, and are finding out they don't have the network capacity to handle all their employees working from home.

fahrradflucht 7y ago

Judging from DE-CIX Frankfurt stats [0], there is still a peak, but normal day time level is now above, what was the peak 2 weeks ago. [0]: https://www.de-cix.net/en/locations/germany/frankfurt/statistics https://www.de-cix.net/en/locations/germany/frankfurt/statis...

Polylactic_acid 7y ago
I wonder why the peak went up from sept to oct. I don't remember anything interesting happening back then.