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If you zoom in on the graph, you can see oscillatory behaviour / noise. Would anyone know where this is coming from? It is almost like they are measuring an ana

by pvitz 3y ago

If you zoom in on the graph, you can see oscillatory behaviour / noise. Would anyone know where this is coming from? It is almost like they are measuring an analogue signal and have a 50/60Hz hum on it... Edit: I just remembered seeing something similar related to rounding a floating point signal once. Maybe that is the reason behind it. Edit 2: Peaks seem to fall on Saturdays, so maybe this corresponds to people turning on their computers/routers at home more often on the weekend.

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Symbiote 3y ago
Work/office (more likely IPv4) vs. home (more likely IPv6). (At least as I've heard it explained before. But it could be a large country with high adoption like India swaying the statistics.)
- pvitz 3y ago
  Yes, this looks quite likely given the peaks consistently on Saturdays (at least at the end of the series where I checked it).
bobnamob 3y ago
Looks diurnal to me. Maybe the US coming online given the geo breakdown below that graph
- amalcon 3y ago
  It's more likely India than the US. They have a moderately higher adoption rate and a lot more people.
jcranmer 3y ago
If you really zoom in, you can see the general pattern: it is highest on a Saturday, and low on Monday-Thursday, with Friday and Sunday in intermediate positions. Furthermore, the troughs get noticeably higher between November and December. Finally, the troughs got a big, sudden boost in March 2020 that takes several months to slowly "recover". What other behavior follows that pattern? It's reflective of work-in-office patterns--IPv6 penetration is much lower in business settings than in residential (or mobile) settings.
- pvitz 3y ago
  Thanks, I noticed the same in my second edit. Also, Christmas vacation and - to a certain extent - the summer months are quite visible.
rjmunro 3y ago
Zooming right in the peaks in IPv6 are on Saturdays. So it's probably people at home or on their mobiles more at the weekend, more at work the rest of the week. I'm surprised that it falls back pretty equally on Fridays and Sundays, though. Maybe this is an artefact of the timezone they are operating in - some of the Friday traffic is actually Saturday, some of the Sunday traffic has gone to Saturday.
- toyg 3y ago
  The islamic holy day is Friday, so some countries probably have a Friday-Saturday weekend break.
- Izkata 3y ago
  > or on their mobiles more at the weekend Other comments are pointing out it's much much easier to migrate mobile to ipv6 than it is to migrate desktop, so I'm thinking it's more likely this than the other possibilities.

by pvitz 3y ago

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Symbiote 3y ago

Work/office (more likely IPv4) vs. home (more likely IPv6). (At least as I've heard it explained before. But it could be a large country with high adoption like India swaying the statistics.)

pvitz 3y ago
Yes, this looks quite likely given the peaks consistently on Saturdays (at least at the end of the series where I checked it).

bobnamob 3y ago

Looks diurnal to me. Maybe the US coming online given the geo breakdown below that graph

amalcon 3y ago
It's more likely India than the US. They have a moderately higher adoption rate and a lot more people.

jcranmer 3y ago

If you really zoom in, you can see the general pattern: it is highest on a Saturday, and low on Monday-Thursday, with Friday and Sunday in intermediate positions. Furthermore, the troughs get noticeably higher between November and December. Finally, the troughs got a big, sudden boost in March 2020 that takes several months to slowly "recover". What other behavior follows that pattern? It's reflective of work-in-office patterns--IPv6 penetration is much lower in business settings than in residential (or mobile) settings.

pvitz 3y ago
Thanks, I noticed the same in my second edit. Also, Christmas vacation and - to a certain extent - the summer months are quite visible.

rjmunro 3y ago

Zooming right in the peaks in IPv6 are on Saturdays. So it's probably people at home or on their mobiles more at the weekend, more at work the rest of the week. I'm surprised that it falls back pretty equally on Fridays and Sundays, though. Maybe this is an artefact of the timezone they are operating in - some of the Friday traffic is actually Saturday, some of the Sunday traffic has gone to Saturday.

toyg 3y ago
The islamic holy day is Friday, so some countries probably have a Friday-Saturday weekend break.
Izkata 3y ago
> or on their mobiles more at the weekend Other comments are pointing out it's much much easier to migrate mobile to ipv6 than it is to migrate desktop, so I'm thinking it's more likely this than the other possibilities.