Agreed... 720 or 1080 Netflix will work just as fine as 4K for the next
month or two.
On 3/19/20 12:05 PM, Mike Bolitho wrote:
I was getting blasted earlier for suggesting streaming services and
gaming DLCs could likely be slowed by government intervention. EU is
currently working with Netflix to do just that. It's currently a strong
suggestion and even a plead but I maintain that we're going to see this
pushed harder in the coming weeks.
In a statement on Thursday, Breton said that given the unprecedented
situation, streaming platforms, telecom operators and users "all have a
joint responsibility to take steps to ensure the smooth functioning of
the internet during the battle against the virus propagation."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/tech/netflix-internet-overload-eu/index.html
- Mike Bolitho
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 5:03 AM Mark Tinka <mark.ti...@seacom.mu
<mailto:mark.ti...@seacom.mu>> wrote:
On 19/Mar/20 04:35, Scott Weeks wrote:
>
>
> We do about 70-80Gbps at peak over the external
> BGP links we have and I am not seeing a large
> increase nor am I seeing it spread out over time.
> We're an eyeball network plus some really large
> customers.
>
> Anyone else seeing something different? We're
> now into the 3rd day, so I thought I'd see
> something change by now.
South Africa and a few other African countries put countries on
semi-lockdown from about Sunday.
We've seen a 15% increase in peak traffic on our network since the 17th.
Mark.
