<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Does that mean Comcast is going to drop my $30/month surcharge for actual unlimited?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 13, 2020, at 14:23 , lobna gouda <<a href="mailto:lobna_gouda@hotmail.com" class="">lobna_gouda@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Hey Networkers,</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Seems other companies will imitate ATT, comcast is giving it free and with the national emergencies universities will work online...etc. Yet this is not US scope, it is worldwide. There is blog from cloudfare seems interesting about the internet traffic.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Does other have graph seeing traffic difference?<br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/covid-19-impacts-on-internet-traffic-seattle-italy-and-south-korea/" id="LPlnk615315" class="">https://blog.cloudflare.com/covid-19-impacts-on-internet-traffic-seattle-italy-and-south-korea/</a></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Brgds,</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">LG<br class=""></div><div id="LPBorder_GTaHR0cHM6Ly9ibG9nLmNsb3VkZmxhcmUuY29tL2NvdmlkLTE5LWltcGFjdHMtb24taW50ZXJuZXQtdHJhZmZpYy1zZWF0dGxlLWl0YWx5LWFuZC1zb3V0aC1rb3JlYS8." class="LPBorder576106" contenteditable="false" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; width: 800px; margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px; position: relative; max-width: 800px; min-width: 424px;"><table id="LPContainer576106" role="presentation" style="padding: 12px 36px 12px 12px; width: 750px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 200, 200); border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px; border-bottom-left-radius: 2px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr valign="top" style="border-spacing: 0px;" class=""><td class=""><div id="LPImageContainer576106" style="position: relative; margin-right: 12px; height: 125.65px; overflow: hidden; width: 240px;" class=""><a target="_blank" id="LPImageAnchor576106" href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/covid-19-impacts-on-internet-traffic-seattle-italy-and-south-korea/" class=""><img id="LPThumbnailImageId576106" alt="" width="240" height="125" src="https://blog-cloudflare-com-assets.storage.googleapis.com/2020/03/facebook-Linked_Image___italy-january-copy@3x.png" style="display: block;" class=""></a></div></td><td style="width: 488px;" class=""><div id="LPTitle576106" style="font-size: 21px; font-weight: 300; margin-right: 8px; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_light, "Segoe UI Light", "Segoe WP Light", "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12px;" class=""><a target="_blank" id="LPUrlAnchor576106" href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/covid-19-impacts-on-internet-traffic-seattle-italy-and-south-korea/" style="text-decoration: none; color: var(--themePrimary);" class="">COVID-19 impacts on Internet traffic: Seattle, Northern Italy and South Korea</a></div><div id="LPDescription576106" style="font-size: 14px; max-height: 100px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-right: 8px; overflow: hidden;" class="">The last few weeks have seen unprecedented changes in how people live and work around the world. Over time more and more companies have given their employees the right to work from home, restricted business travel and, in some cases, outright sent their entire workforce home.</div><div id="LPMetadata576106" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(166, 166, 166); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="http://blog.cloudflare.com/" class="">blog.cloudflare.com</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div id="appendonsend" class=""></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><hr tabindex="-1" style="display: inline-block; width: 1684.609375px;" class=""><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>NANOG <<a href="mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org" class="">nanog-bounces@nanog.org</a>> on behalf of Jared Mauch <<a href="mailto:jared@puck.nether.net" class="">jared@puck.nether.net</a>><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, March 12, 2020 6:34 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sean Donelan <<a href="mailto:sean@donelan.com" class="">sean@donelan.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org" class="">nanog@nanog.org</a> <<a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org" class="">nanog@nanog.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: AT&T is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus</font><div class=""> </div></div><div class="BodyFragment"><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><div class="PlainText">I do worry if the broadband networks have the capacity. WFH traffic is usually different from regular consumer traffic. My neighbors were telling me about the mandatory work from home they had today and how the VPN struggled to work.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class="">To those upgrading those things, keep at it. You will get there.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class="">Sent from my iCar<br class=""><br class="">> On Mar 12, 2020, at 6:29 PM, Sean Donelan <<a href="mailto:sean@donelan.com" class="">sean@donelan.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> <br class="">> The first data cap waiver I've seen due to coronavirus. I expect other ISPs to quickly follow.<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v74qzb/atandt-suspends-broadband-usage-caps-during-coronavirus-crisis" class="">https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v74qzb/atandt-suspends-broadband-usage-caps-during-coronavirus-crisis</a><br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> AT&T is the first major ISP to confirm that it will be suspending all broadband usage caps as millions of Americans bunker down in a bid to slow the rate of COVID-19 expansion. Consumer groups and a coalition of Senators are now pressuring other ISPs to follow suit.</div></span></font></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>