<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">> The impact of all these bored school kids on the networks due to gaming might cause some issues. I know that if I'm working from home and my videoconferencing slows down because of someones gaming, I'm taking the necessary action (read, change some rules on my firewall). <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">People are welcome to do whatever they want on their own networks. I just didn't get the suggestion that online gaming services would shut down. Or were you saying, Mike, that online gaming would crowd out other services and so "shut down" those other services?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri., Mar. 13, 2020, 21:42 Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">owen@delong.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">You don’t have kids, do you…<div><br></div><div>They have the attention span of Koi these days. They’ll play most games for about 15 minutes or so before downloading the next one. (At least that’s been my observation of behavior among my GF’s daughter and her friends).</div><div><br></div><div>Owen</div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mar 13, 2020, at 20:31 , Darin Steffl <<a href="mailto:darin.steffl@mnwifi.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">darin.steffl@mnwifi.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="auto">Playing games doesn't take much bandwidth. Downloading games does. So as long as everyone already has their games and there's no updates, playing the game is typically under 100 kbps which is negligible compared to streaming video which takes 1 to 25 mbps. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 8:52 PM Sabri Berisha <<a href="mailto:sabri@cluecentral.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">sabri@cluecentral.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,"new york",times,serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I don't know where y'all live, but here in the SF Bay Area, pretty much all public and private schools have closed down. My school district (in Santa Clara County) will be closed until Spring Break.</div><div><br></div><div>The impact of all these bored school kids on the networks due to gaming might cause some issues. I know that if I'm working from home and my videoconferencing slows down because of someones gaming, I'm taking the necessary action (read, change some rules on my firewall). </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, <br><br>Sabri <br><br></div><br><span id="m_-7789576080633447170m_-1411927169102740365m_-2958002987703261053zwchr">----- On Mar 13, 2020, at 4:12 PM, Hugo Slabbert <<a href="mailto:hugo@slabnet.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">hugo@slabnet.com</a>> wrote:<br></span><div><blockquote style="border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(16,16,255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I think under circumstances like this, I could definitely see some of the online based games shutting services down.</blockquote><div> </div><div>How so?</div><br><div>Signed,</div><br><div>Someone who works for an online gaming company and has heard nothing of this.<br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span face="monospace" style="font-family:monospace"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span face="monospace" style="font-family:monospace">-- </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span face="monospace" style="font-family:monospace">Hugo Slabbert | email, xmpp/jabber: <a href="mailto:hugo@slabnet.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">hugo@slabnet.com</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span face="monospace" style="font-family:monospace">pgp key: B178313E | also on Signal</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 2:52 PM Mike Bolitho <<a href="mailto:mikebolitho@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">mikebolitho@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I think under circumstances like this, I could definitely see some of the online based games shutting services down.</div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>- Mike Bolitho</span></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 2:41 PM Ahmed Borno <<a href="mailto:amaged@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">amaged@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Its already happening in Italy, and now that schools are shutting down here as well, its going to get interesting: <br><div><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-12/housebound-italian-kids-strain-network-with-fortnite-marathon" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-12/housebound-italian-kids-strain-network-with-fortnite-marathon</a><br></div><br><div>The ultimate traffic test is coming, looking forward to hearing about it on this thread.</div><br><div>Maybe its a good time to start a communication channel between content providers/gaming companies and ISPs/CDNs.</div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 11:22 AM Rubens Kuhl <<a href="mailto:rubensk@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">rubensk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 3:46 PM <a href="mailto:g@1337.io" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">g@1337.io</a> <<a href="mailto:lists@1337.io" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">lists@1337.io</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">With talk of there being an involuntary statewide (WA) and then national quarantines (house arrest) for multiple weeks, has anyone put thought into the impacts of this on your networks if/when this comes to fruition? <br>
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We're already pushing the limits with telecommuters / those that are WFH, but I can only imagine what things will look like with everyone stuck at home for any duration of time.<br></blockquote><br><br><div>People will turn to you and every other ISP hoping you keep them online. So besides demand issues, keeping your network up will be important to a whole lot of people. </div><br><br><div>Rubens</div><div> </div></div></div>
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