No, because there's no set schedule for these things. Some publishers / consoles get content/patches up in advance to allow user to pre-load. This can smooth out the bandwidth hits, but only if the users enable the pre-load feature. Many don't. Other publishers just enable the updates at once for everybody, and you see a big spike when they do.
The time of day is also not always the same either. On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 10:09 AM Aaron Gould <aar...@gvtc.com> wrote: > thanks Peter, et al. Is there some sort of website, traffic stats, gaming > update schedule page for me to proactively see if/when this type of thing > will occur? I mean, this is a significant uptick on all 3 of my internet > uplinks... would be nice to know beforehand > > -Aaron > > > On 7/23/2024 9:02 AM, Peter Potvin wrote: > > Considering at least the top 4 IPs you've listed are CDN providers (Edgio > and Fastly), this definitely sounds like game updates or something of the > sort. Nothing unusual really for 3am on a weekday morning especially for an > eyeball network. > > Kind regards, > Peter > > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 9:57 AM Aaron Gould <aar...@gvtc.com> wrote: > >> Thanks Jason, updates for what? I was hoping any other eyeball network >> operators may have been seeing "lots of internet" usage like me and may be >> able to share what they know. I'm always suspicious about the typical game >> update that tends to cause something like this. someone unicasted me a >> response that it might be related to F1 Manager 2024 for video game consoles >> released today >> >> >> i grabbed my netflow data for the last few hours for any source ip that has >> sent more than 5 GB of data... >> >> Top 100 Src IP Addr ordered by bytes: >> Date first seen Duration Proto Src IP Addr Flows(%) >> Packets(%) Bytes(%) pps bps bpp >> 2024-07-23 04:37:29.600 14860.800 any 93.184.215.240 557558( 0.6) >> 108.5 M( 9.2) 162.6 G(12.9) 7302 87.5 M 1497 >> 2024-07-23 04:42:07.616 14577.664 any 72.21.81.240 361240( 0.4) >> 64.5 M( 5.5) 96.6 G( 7.7) 4426 53.0 M 1497 >> 2024-07-23 06:52:08.192 6781.696 any 151.101.162.172 270298( 0.3) >> 36.9 M( 3.1) 55.0 G( 4.4) 5445 64.9 M 1489 >> 2024-07-23 04:23:08.160 15722.240 any 151.101.150.172 1.0 M( 1.0) >> 31.2 M( 2.6) 46.4 G( 3.7) 1985 23.6 M 1486 >> 2024-07-23 04:42:47.552 14542.592 any 146.75.106.172 238287( 0.2) >> 22.9 M( 1.9) 33.9 G( 2.7) 1575 18.7 M 1480 >> 2024-07-23 03:40:11.776 18298.880 any 199.232.214.172 135793( 0.1) >> 19.1 M( 1.6) 28.4 G( 2.3) 1043 12.4 M 1486 >> 2024-07-23 03:48:59.392 17769.728 any 199.232.210.172 135811( 0.1) >> 18.8 M( 1.6) 27.9 G( 2.2) 1057 12.6 M 1486 >> 2024-07-23 04:22:05.184 15783.680 any 199.232.70.172 923350( 0.9) >> 18.5 M( 1.6) 27.5 G( 2.2) 1169 14.0 M 1491 >> 2024-07-23 04:36:40.704 14909.696 any 146.75.42.172 138813( 0.1) >> 5.6 M( 0.5) 8.3 G( 0.7) 374 4.5 M 1492 >> 2024-07-22 22:50:26.048 35683.840 any 199.232.70.252 112323( 0.1) >> 5.4 M( 0.5) 8.0 G( 0.6) 150 1.8 M 1485 >> 2024-07-23 06:52:06.656 6783.488 any 146.75.10.172 74859( 0.1) >> 4.6 M( 0.4) 6.8 G( 0.5) 676 8.1 M 1489 >> 2024-07-23 02:38:16.704 22011.392 any 151.101.160.204 6114( 0.0) >> 4.1 M( 0.3) 6.2 G( 0.5) 187 2.2 M 1489 >> 2024-07-23 01:34:17.728 25851.136 any 151.101.161.190 44001( 0.0) >> 4.1 M( 0.3) 6.1 G( 0.5) 157 1.9 M 1489 >> 2024-07-22 22:17:50.464 37638.912 any 199.232.154.252 69420( 0.1) >> 3.6 M( 0.3) 5.4 G( 0.4) 96 1.1 M 1483 >> >> -Aaron >> >> >> >> On 7/23/2024 8:19 AM, Peter Potvin wrote: >> >> Do you have *any* sort of additional information about this? Which >> source and destination ASNs, how much "a lot" is, etc? This sounds like a >> typical game update release cycle though without any information not a >> whole lot of networks would be able to confirm anything. >> >> Kind regards, >> Peter >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 9:07 AM Aaron Gould <aar...@gvtc.com> wrote: >> >>> Anyone else see a lot of Internet traffic starting at 3 a.m. and >>> continuing even now? Seems to be spiky tcp. >>> >>> -- >>> -Aaron >>> >>> -- >> -Aaron >> >> -- > -Aaron > >
