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 <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 11:58 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <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 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
