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I could easily imagine the Russian government shutting down internet usage for a few hours until they had a better handle on the situation. But, I have to ask,
by rossdavidh 6y ago
I could easily imagine the Russian government shutting down internet usage for a few hours until they had a better handle on the situation. But, I have to ask, how possible is it that this was instead a lot more people than usual trying to use the internet in that area, because they were all on their smartphones trying to coordinate their activities in bandwidth-hungry ways?
Not saying it's likely, I don't know enough about the tech and infrastructure to evaluate that. Just asking the question in case somebody on HN does know.
- stopChanging 6y agoI'm wondering the same thing. The article only says this: "Purposeful internet outages generally have a distinct network pattern used by NetBlocks to determine and attribute the root cause of an outage, a process known as attribution which follows detection and classification stages." To me they just drop some silly terms and fail to actually explain anything.
- owl57 6y agoUnlikely. My fixed internet provider in Moscow suburb went down citing "upstream network failure", came up around 11pm. Today's load is probably less than a pre-pandemic football game and definitely less than new year, and our networks handle that just fine.