Oh interesting.
On 3/18/2020 1:40 PM, can...@believewireless.net wrote:
We are pretty much a commercial-only WISP and our bandwidth has been
cut in half.
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 1:21 PM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com
<mailto:af...@kwisp.com>> wrote:
Kind of the same here, peaks not that much higher, but heavy usage
all day. Companies are still sending more people to work from
home, and I'm starting to get calls from people trying to save big
files to the shared drive at the office (over a VPN which adds
overhead) and saying something must be wrong because it's taking 5
minutes to save a file.
I don't think upstream bandwidth is an issue for the kids watching
Disney+ or even the ones actually doing schoolwork. But a lot of
people working from home seem to have a workflow that involves
download a huge file, edit it, upload the changed file, and given
that the Internet is pretty much built to deliver Netflix, they
are running out of upload bandwidth.
I'm not sure that is something we can dramatically change. I
mean, we've got upstream bandwidth sitting unused on our licensed
backhauls and our upstream provider connections, but not on the
last mile connections. And it's not just WISPs. The Internet is
built for downloading.
I would probably work on another task while the previous one was
uploading, but that apparently doesn't work for most people. I
could also wish for IT departments to use more of an
edit-it-in-the-cloud approach like Google Sheets, but a lot of
these people literally got told to pack up their work computers in
their cars and take them home. And everything was set up for an
office LAN environment.
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From where I'm sitting it looks like peak time usage has only
gone up maybe 10% if at all, but the ramp up towards peak starts
at noon instead of at 6pm. I'm comparing late February to mid March.
A lot of people were concerned about bandwidth, but I'm honestly
not seeing a difference in a way that actually matters. I'm sure
consumption in terms of GB will be higher, but I don't think we
actually have to care.
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