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On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 2:53 PM Tom Deligiannis <tom.deligian...@gmail.com> wrote: > Aren't most modern consoles on whether they're "on" or not? IE: It's not >> a full power up from a dead stop, 0 watts power usage. >> >> I'd think they'd be able to come out of sleep mode on their own, download >> the update, then go back to sleep. >> > > Xbox has this feature, but it doesn't work very well. A quick google > search shows that many users have their consoles set to receive updates, > but that feature doesn't seem to be working properly. > > Tom > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 1:46 PM Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > >> Aren't most modern consoles on whether they're "on" or not? IE: It's not >> a full power up from a dead stop, 0 watts power usage. >> >> I'd think they'd be able to come out of sleep mode on their own, download >> the update, then go back to sleep. >> >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> >> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> >> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> >> Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> >> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> >> The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> >> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> >> ------------------------------ >> *From: *"Seth Mattinen" <se...@rollernet.us> >> *To: *nanog@nanog.org >> *Sent: *Wednesday, February 12, 2020 1:42:21 PM >> *Subject: *Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that >> >> On 2/12/20 11:31, Livingood, Jason wrote: >> > But I think folks are correct that the issue may be more that a given >> gaming device was turned off at night (though no reason that device could >> not pre-cache the content from the source). In any case, there should be a >> better way to address this. The Internet will see more and more of these >> downloads and smoothing the impact out seems prudent for all involved. >> >> >> Putting my end user hat on, I turn off all my consoles when I'm not >> using them, often for weeks. When I get home and it looks like I'll have >> time to play after dinner I'll turn one of them on and let it >> download/install. I don't really care that my off work and dinner times >> might not be convenient for my ISP to download giant files. I fully >> understand the ISP's perspective, but I'm not going to start leaving my >> consoles on 24x7. >> >> The way to address this used to be this thing called "physical media" >> that held games, but nowadays even when I have a game on disc it has to >> download at least one massive patch before it will play. >> >>
