We're seeing traffic at about 9-10am go up considerably and then stay there until the evening rush starts, but the overall nightly peak is about the same as before.
-- Christopher Tyler Senior Network Engineer MTCRE/MTCNA/MTCTCE/MTCWE Total Highspeed Internet Solutions 1091 W. Kathryn Street Nixa, MO 65714 (417) 851-1107 x. 9002 www.totalhighspeed.com ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Josh Luthman" <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> > To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> > Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 8:58:40 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Covid19 bandwidth > Looks like winter break to me. > > > > > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 2:01 PM Ken Hohhof < [ mailto:af...@kwisp.com | > af...@kwisp.com ] > wrote: > > > > > > Businesses with no people at the office but “the server” and “the shared > drive” > are still there may find they are not set up for their entire workforce to > work > from home. The office could become the bottleneck. > > > > I often get frustrated with everything going “to the cloud”, but this might > be a > situation where that is a good thing. > > > > > > From: AF < [ mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com | af-boun...@af.afmug.com ] > On > Behalf Of Mathew Howard > Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 12:43 PM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group < [ mailto:af@af.afmug.com | > af@af.afmug.com ] > > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Covid19 bandwidth > > > > > Yeah, it makes sense that would mainly be an increase in daytime usage, and > that's mostly what we're seeing as well. > > > > > > I do expect the upload thing to be a problem though... > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 12:21 PM Ken Hohhof < [ mailto:af...@kwisp.com | > 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. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: AF < [ mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com | af-boun...@af.afmug.com ] > On > Behalf Of Adam Moffett > Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 11:58 AM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group < [ mailto:af@af.afmug.com | > af@af.afmug.com ] > > Subject: [AFMUG] Covid19 bandwidth > > 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. > > > -- > AF mailing list > [ mailto:AF@af.afmug.com | AF@af.afmug.com ] > [ http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com | > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com ] > > > > -- > AF mailing list > [ mailto:AF@af.afmug.com | AF@af.afmug.com ] > [ http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com | > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com ] > -- > AF mailing list > [ mailto:AF@af.afmug.com | AF@af.afmug.com ] > [ http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com | > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com ] > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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