On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 2:46 PM Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
Aren't most modern consoles on whether they're "on" or not? IE: It's not a full power up from a dead stop, 0 watts power usage.I'd think they'd be able to come out of sleep mode on their own, download the update, then go back to sleep.From: "Seth Mattinen" <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 1:42:21 PM
Subject: Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that
On 2/12/20 11:31, Livingood, Jason wrote:
> But I think folks are correct that the issue may be more that a given gaming device was turned off at night (though no reason that device could not pre-cache the content from the source). In any case, there should be a better way to address this. The Internet will see more and more of these downloads and smoothing the impact out seems prudent for all involved.
Putting my end user hat on, I turn off all my consoles when I'm not
using them, often for weeks. When I get home and it looks like I'll have
time to play after dinner I'll turn one of them on and let it
download/install. I don't really care that my off work and dinner times
might not be convenient for my ISP to download giant files. I fully
understand the ISP's perspective, but I'm not going to start leaving my
consoles on 24x7.
The way to address this used to be this thing called "physical media"
that held games, but nowadays even when I have a game on disc it has to
download at least one massive patch before it will play.
