Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

My kid has enough homework to reduce her gaming to normal levels.

If your kid doesn’t, perhaps you’ll want to supplement it. ;-)

Owen


> On Mar 13, 2020, at 18:52 , Sabri Berisha <sabri () cluecentral net> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I don't know where y'all live, but here in the SF Bay Area, pretty much all public and private schools have closed 
> down. My school district (in Santa Clara County) will be closed until Spring Break.
>
> The impact of all these bored school kids on the networks due to gaming might cause some issues. I know that if I'm 
> working from home and my videoconferencing slows down because of someones gaming, I'm taking the necessary action 
> (read, change some rules on my firewall). 
>
> Thanks, 
>
> Sabri 
>
>
> ----- On Mar 13, 2020, at 4:12 PM, Hugo Slabbert <hugo () slabnet com> wrote:
> I think under circumstances like this, I could definitely see some of the online based games shutting services down.
>  
> How so?
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> Signed,
>
> Someone who works for an online gaming company and has heard nothing of this.
>
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> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 2:52 PM Mike Bolitho <mikebolitho () gmail com <mailto:mikebolitho () gmail com>> wrote:
> I think under circumstances like this, I could definitely see some of the online based games shutting services down.
>
> - Mike Bolitho
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> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 2:41 PM Ahmed Borno <amaged () gmail com <mailto:amaged () gmail com>> wrote:
> Its already happening in Italy, and now that schools are shutting down here as well, its going to get interesting: 
> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-12/housebound-italian-kids-strain-network-with-fortnite-marathon 
> <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-12/housebound-italian-kids-strain-network-with-fortnite-marathon>
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> The ultimate traffic test is coming, looking forward to hearing about it on this thread.
>
> Maybe its a good time to start a communication channel between content providers/gaming companies and ISPs/CDNs.
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> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 11:22 AM Rubens Kuhl <rubensk () gmail com <mailto:rubensk () gmail com>> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 3:46 PM g () 1337 io <mailto:g () 1337 io> <lists () 1337 io <mailto:lists () 1337 io>> wrote:
> With talk of there being an involuntary statewide (WA) and then national quarantines (house arrest) for multiple 
> weeks, has anyone put thought into the impacts of this on your networks if/when this comes to fruition? 
>
> We're already pushing the limits with telecommuters / those that are WFH, but I can only imagine what things will 
> look like with everyone stuck at home for any duration of time.
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> People will turn to you and every other ISP hoping you keep them online. So besides demand issues, keeping your 
> network up will be important to a whole lot of people. 
>
>
> Rubens
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