Some of the tickets we are getting I think are just longstanding WiFi issues. People are stupid and lazy and the latest situation is just shining a light on their home network deficiencies, possibly due to higher usage or more people and devices in the house.
All the time I see people with every single device in the house connected via WiFi, even a TV 2 feet from the router. And the satellite TV guy of course doesn't run an Ethernet cable to the MOCA device, he connects to their WiFi. Then the people buy a "range extender" and set it right next to our managed router. When that makes things worse, they buy a couple more range extenders. Then they buy a bunch of battery operated WiFi cameras and stick them all over the outside of their house with -90 WiFi signals. And even with a dual band router, they put all the devices on one band, rather than at least dedicating 2.4 GHz to the cameras with the crappy signal. If there's a way to make their home network suck, they'll find it. Then they complain their Internet is slow. Except in times of stress like now, it's "VERY slow". -----Original Message----- From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Craig House Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 9:24 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Covid19 bandwidth We haven’t seen an ANUS. (Average network usage statistics) this bad in 10 years. To quote an old friends episode Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 19, 2020, at 09:18, Christopher Tyler <ch...@totalhighspeed.net> wrote: > > 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 > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > <bandwidth.png> -- AF mailing list 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
