akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

Wed Feb 12 20:05:36 UTC 2020

It seems like spinning up the disk if there's an update would be trivial. *shrugs* 

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From: "Josh Luthman" <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> 
To: "Tom Deligiannis" <tom.deligiannis at gmail.com> 
Cc: "Mike Hammett" <nanog at ics-il.net>, "NANOG list" <nanog at nanog.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 2:02:42 PM 
Subject: Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that 

Because the disks are shut off by default in standby mode. 

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On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 2:53 PM Tom Deligiannis < tom.deligiannis at gmail.com > wrote: 

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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 < nanog at ics-il.net > wrote: 

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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. 

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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 

From: "Seth Mattinen" < sethm at rollernet.us > 
To: nanog at 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. 

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