Agreed... 720 or 1080 Netflix will work just as fine as 4K for the next month or two. On 3/19/20 12:05 PM, Mike Bolitho wrote:
I was getting blasted earlier for suggesting streaming services and gaming DLCs could likely be slowed by government intervention. EU is currently working with Netflix to do just that. It's currently a strong suggestion and even a plead but I maintain that we're going to see this pushed harder in the coming weeks.
In a statement on Thursday, Breton said that given the unprecedented situation, streaming platforms, telecom operators and users "all have a joint responsibility to take steps to ensure the smooth functioning of the internet during the battle against the virus propagation."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/tech/netflix-internet-overload-eu/index.html
- Mike Bolitho
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 5:03 AM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu <mailto:mark.tinka@seacom.mu>> wrote:
On 19/Mar/20 04:35, Scott Weeks wrote: > > > We do about 70-80Gbps at peak over the external > BGP links we have and I am not seeing a large > increase nor am I seeing it spread out over time. > We're an eyeball network plus some really large > customers. > > Anyone else seeing something different? We're > now into the 3rd day, so I thought I'd see > something change by now.
South Africa and a few other African countries put countries on semi-lockdown from about Sunday.
We've seen a 15% increase in peak traffic on our network since the 17th.
Mark.