IIRC, game consoles are always on, whether they're "on" or not.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Beecher" <beec...@beecher.cc> To: "Darin Steffl" <darin.ste...@mnwifi.com> Cc: Nanog@nanog.org Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2020 5:13:19 PM Subject: Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Not everybody leaves their console/PC on 24/7 so that they would pull the patch at 3am local even if that’s when it was released. It’s far from reckless. It’s not the game companies job to make sure the network works. That’s our job. On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 14:37 Darin Steffl < darin.ste...@mnwifi.com > wrote: Shouldn't game patches like this be released overnight during off-peak hours? Fortnite releases their updates around 3 or 4am when most ISP's networks are at their lowest utilization. It seems somewhat reckless to release such a large patch during awake hours. On Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 12:08 PM Brandon Jackson via NANOG < nanog@nanog.org > wrote: <blockquote> "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare fragged our business VOIP: US ISP blames outage on smash-hit video game rush This is Windstream, going dark..." https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/23/windstream_fvoip_outage/ Apparently not everyone came out unscathed. ---------------------------------- Brandon Jackson bjack...@napshome.net On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:14 AM Aaron Gould < aar...@gvtc.com > wrote: <blockquote> My gosh, what in the word was that coming out of my local Akamai aanp servers yesterday !? starting at about 12:00 noon central time lasting several hours ? -Aaron </blockquote> </blockquote>
