This is already how much of the cable networks operate. Power goes out and the pole mounted nodes go out eventually.
> On Feb 18, 2020, at 2:15 PM, Constantine A. Murenin <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 at 10:10, Darin Steffl <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I believe that when this happens, they should proactively block or limit >> video and file download/upload traffic as much as possible to make sure >> communications like calls and texts can go through with the highest success >> rate possible. Netflix and YouTube should never hinder more important >> communications in my opinion. Maybe it's as simple as putting a rate limit >> for each cellphone connected to these now overloaded sectors so no one can >> hog the cell capacity. > > This is very easy to do, thanks for the widespread adoption and use of HTTP, > which lets you easily filter these sorts of things in times of need and to > suit the requirements. > > Or, what, we no longer use HTTP, because it's not "secure"? > > Nevermind, folks. Don't forget to update your certs and thank IETF, Mozilla, > Cloudflare and Google Chrome for your lack of connectivity. But at least > you're secure, as no bad traffic can reach you now! > > C.
