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

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.


On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 11:22 AM Rubens Kuhl <rubensk@gmail.com> wrote:


On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 3:46 PM g@1337.io <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.


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