akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

Wed Feb 12 15:33:35 UTC 2020

We saw a higher load overnight, a little bit of a spike last night, but 
really hard to tell overall with our traffic.  Updates were still going 
at 8am today.  We run a local/regional WISP.

On 2/12/20 9:46 AM, Brandon Martin wrote:
> On 2/11/20 6:41 PM, Tom Deligiannis wrote:
>> There is a major update that has released today, how's everything 
>> looking for everyone?
>
> I run a couple distinct very small networks.  Both are transit-only 
> with no direct peering or local caching and generally sub-gbps.
>
> One set a new 1-min 95% record and did so by nearly 25% over its 
> previous record.  The other matched its existing record.  The former 
> thankfully has ample capacity, while the latter thankfully did so 
> before primetime.
>
> These are definitely going to be harder to manage than the primetime 
> hump.  It would be nice if things could drop overnight to hopefully 
> spread things out during the daytime lull some.  I understand that 
> some people won't pick it up until they get home and turn on devices 
> (which is often after school hours for these type of game updates), 
> but spreading things out would be really nice especially for those of 
> us without local caching.
>