There is a major update that has released today, how's everything looking for everyone?
Tom On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:14 AM Aaron Gould <aar...@gvtc.com> wrote: > 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 > On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 2:02 PM Tom Deligiannis <tom.deligian...@gmail.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. >> > > I can't speak for PS4 and PC, but xbox does have a setting to keep the > console in a state that allows the device to download updates when it is > 'off' but I've noticed that the consoles don't always follow that rule and > the update starts downloading when the user powers on the console, which is > usually during peak hours. If this worked properly, it would be great since > most of the updates would download while users were at school, working, > sleeping, etc. > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 1:36 PM 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: >> >>> "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: >>> >>>> 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 >>>> >>>
