akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

Thu Feb 13 17:39:09 UTC 2020

Strictly out of interest, I wanted to ask earlier if this irresponsible way
of causing insane, instant, bandwidth demands is breaking anything on the
ISP/CDN side or even the console owner ?! Or is it just an interesting
phenomenon that is handled without a sweat. Does it break the buck in
anyway?

The thread started with bandwidth surges and now power hogging is
mentioned, I wonder what else might happen as a side effect to a small
number of console/gaming companies not taking a direct responsibility in
how they release large updates in a way that is not organized or scheduled
but is rough and abrupt.

~A

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 3:33 AM Tom Beecher <beecher at beecher.cc> wrote:

> The discussion about what the consoles can or can not do is honestly not
> solving anything.
>
> Saying that the consoles should or should not be doing a thing is simply
> trying to throw the problem to someone else.
>
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 15:40 Carsten Bormann <cabo at tzi.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2020-02-12, at 20:45, Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > 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.
>>
>>
>> https://www.anandtech.com/show/7528/the-xbox-one-mini-review-hardware-analysis/5
>> says two-digit standby power (which they say is needed for background
>> updating).  At least in Germany, nobody sane will leave the thing in that
>> expensive mode (a watt-year is $3 here).  Switchable extension power cords
>> are being actively marketed here for these power hogs.
>>
>> Grüße, Carsten
>>
>>
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