It seems like spinning up the disk if there's an update would be trivial. *shrugs*
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Luthman" <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> To: "Tom Deligiannis" <tom.deligian...@gmail.com> Cc: "Mike Hammett" <na...@ics-il.net>, "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 2:02:42 PM Subject: Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Because the disks are shut off by default in standby mode. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 2:53 PM Tom Deligiannis < tom.deligian...@gmail.com > wrote: <blockquote> 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. Xbox has this feature, but it doesn't work very well. A quick google search shows that many users have their consoles set to receive updates, but that feature doesn't seem to be working properly. Tom On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 1:46 PM Mike Hammett < na...@ics-il.net > wrote: <blockquote> 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. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP From: "Seth Mattinen" < se...@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. </blockquote> </blockquote>
