Its already happening in Italy, and now that schools are shutting down here as well, its going to get interesting:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-12/housebound-italian-kids-strain-network-with-fortnite-marathon The ultimate traffic test is coming, looking forward to hearing about it on this thread. Maybe its a good time to start a communication channel between content providers/gaming companies and ISPs/CDNs. On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 11:22 AM Rubens Kuhl <rube...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 3:46 PM g...@1337.io <li...@1337.io> wrote: > >> With talk of there being an involuntary statewide (WA) and then national >> quarantines (house arrest) for multiple weeks, has anyone put thought into >> the impacts of this on your networks if/when this comes to fruition? >> >> We're already pushing the limits with telecommuters / those that are WFH, >> but I can only imagine what things will look like with everyone stuck at >> home for any duration of time. >> > > > People will turn to you and every other ISP hoping you keep them online. > So besides demand issues, keeping your network up will be important to a > whole lot of people. > > > Rubens > >