<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I mean I blame it on the inadequate capacity of Windstream to handle modern TCP traffic loads - but hey. You know. <div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 25, 2020, at 11:35 AM, Darin Steffl <<a href="mailto:darin.steffl@mnwifi.com" class="">darin.steffl@mnwifi.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Shouldn't game patches like this be released overnight during off-peak hours? Fortnite releases their updates around 3 or 4am when most ISP's networks are at their lowest utilization. It seems somewhat reckless to release such a large patch during awake hours. </div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 12:08 PM Brandon Jackson via NANOG <<a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org" class="">nanog@nanog.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare fragged our business VOIP: US ISP blames outage on smash-hit video game rush<br class="">This is Windstream, going dark..."<div class=""><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/23/windstream_fvoip_outage/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/23/windstream_fvoip_outage/</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Apparently not everyone came out unscathed.<div class=""><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" class=""><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" class="">----------------------------------</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" class=""><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" class="">Brandon Jackson</span></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><a href="mailto:bjackson@napshome.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">bjackson@napshome.net</a></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:14 AM Aaron Gould <<a href="mailto:aaron1@gvtc.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">aaron1@gvtc.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">My gosh, what in the word was that coming out of my local Akamai aanp servers yesterday !? starting at about 12:00 noon central time lasting several hours ?<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">-Aaron<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div></div></blockquote></div>
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