Microsoft's Black Tuesday bandwidth impact?

Yukiyasu Tarui tarui at mfeed.ad.jp
Thu Jan 10 04:24:49 UTC 2008



I made a short presentation related this topic in NANOG38.
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0610/tarui.html 

Recently, we can see a decline during the maintenance
at the major video streaming site in Japan.

Our statistics: http://www.jpnap.net/snapshot/


Yukiyasu Tarui


On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 14:47:53 -0600
> 
> Every month I look at my upstream bandwidth graphs and I see no blip in the
> hours before 3 am on Microsoft's Black Tuesday.  I would think that with the
> thousands of PCs out on our network downloading updates around that time
> that I would see *something*.  I know every Black Tuesday I see my three
> PC's blinking a logon screen.
> 
> Are MSFT's monthly updates really a non-event in regards to internet
> bandwidth?
> 
> Frank
> 





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