But why do they peak in the late evening? ....'cause that's when folks are home. If you now have a houseful of work-from-home and school-from-home people, we could, potentially, see the curve change, especially if folks are working and watching netflix/youtube, etc. I suspect rather than the peak dropping at all, the peak will stretch over a longer time period. -Steve On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 6:50 PM Tom Paseka via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
I am not worried. Residential ISPs are usually at peak in the late evening. They have loads of capacity during the day.
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 3:35 PM Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:
I do worry if the broadband networks have the capacity. WFH traffic is usually different from regular consumer traffic. My neighbors were telling me about the mandatory work from home they had today and how the VPN struggled to work.
To those upgrading those things, keep at it. You will get there.
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On Mar 12, 2020, at 6:29 PM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
The first data cap waiver I've seen due to coronavirus. I expect other ISPs to quickly follow.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v74qzb/atandt-suspends-broadband-usage-ca...
AT&T is the first major ISP to confirm that it will be suspending all
broadband usage caps as millions of Americans bunker down in a bid to slow the rate of COVID-19 expansion. Consumer groups and a coalition of Senators are now pressuring other ISPs to follow suit.