We are pretty much a commercial-only WISP and our bandwidth has been cut in half.
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 1:21 PM Ken Hohhof <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 <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 >
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