Internet crash

[SteviegtrParticipant @steviegtr]

[SteviegtrParticipant @steviegtr]

Was talking to the brother in law last night. He said there had been a discussion about the internet. The opinion was once all the schools are closed & more people are at home. The Internet will slow to a snails pace or worse.

Great so posting on forums will probably take forever.

Could be rubbish but very logical as the kids gaming is mostly online now.

Steve.

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

I would guess so as the major providers throttle the download speed at peak times, unless you're willing to pay their exorbitant super broadband prices,as if they're not making enough profit!

George.

[Jeff DaymanParticipant @jeffdayman43397]

Is it wise to spread such hearsay and rumours in times like these? If there is an issue we will see soon enough, but if not you have just spread more uncertainty and worry for the nervous.

[Cornish JackParticipant @cornishjack]

Could be rubbish

Well at least that bit was right! Other than a need to exercise your keyboard, what particular value do you think that added to the forum?

JD

rgds

Bill

[SteviegtrParticipant @steviegtr]

Posted by Jeff Dayman on 17/03/2020 14:08:55:

Is it wise to spread such hearsay and rumours in times like these? If there is an issue we will see soon enough, but if not you have just spread more uncertainty and worry for the nervous.

Don't preach to the nervous. I have a lot of illness history & falling into the dodgy category myself. I have stopped going out to our 3 times a week local meets. But hey if you rather not know what is possible shut your eyes & get a bucket of sand. What do they say about forewarned. I am going to get some books to read & maybe do more cooking if this happens. I rely on the net as do most others. Was not trying to scare you or anyone else.

Steve.

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Posted by Steviegtr on 17/03/2020 12:42:02:

Was talking to the brother in law last night. He said there had been a discussion about the internet. The opinion was once all the schools are closed & more people are at home. The Internet will slow to a snails pace or worse.

Great so posting on forums will probably take forever.

Could be rubbish …

Steve.

Read all about it here.

Briefly, the professionals think the core (mostly high-bandwidth fibre-optics) will cope, as will the cloud, and they note many services are distributed so that high-capacity traffic like video-streaming is localised.

So it's unlikely that the internet itself will break, but certainly possible that a few hosts might go down due to increased activity. A more likely possibility is that homes connected with older ADSL technology (Copper based Max 10Mb up and 2Mb down), will see speeds drop if everyone on their shared line and Green Box suddenly starts using it. Most likely to effect people who already have poor internet speeds.

Anyone with a fibre or cable service is less likely to notice contention problems.

I'd be very surprised if Coronavirus suddenly made this Forum so massively popular it couldn't cope!

Dave

[not done it yetParticipant @notdoneityet]

I don’t particularly care to know if the internet is going to slow down, either. Anyone who relies solely on the internet will just have to grin and bear it – if it happens. What exactly are you going to do about it, anyway – go out and buy up some more loo rolls?

As someone who has not had a telly for well over ten years I can likely manage with a slow internet as well – plenty of other things to get on with.

[Former MemberParticipant @formermember19781]

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[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

Thinking it might be worth becoming nocturnal

H

[Enough!Participant @enough]

Batty idea!

[OldironParticipant @oldiron]

I think SOD is correct. Mostly already slow connection users will suffer a bit. I have a very fast cable connection and even when all the kids come home there is no slowing of speed that I can see for now. Most of the wireless connections I see locally are Virgin media so are cable. In the last year nearly all BT and TalkTalk connections have disappeared. I too do not use a TV and all my viewing is done online. My brother in the middle of the Fens only has 8mb connection (fastest available because of distance from cabinet) and his appears to slow down when the kids come home in the village about 1/2 mile from him.

 

regards

Edited By Oldiron on 17/03/2020 16:39:29

[Cornish JackParticipant @cornishjack]

There are few problems which cannot be made worse by uninformed (i.e. "my friend" (unattributed, of course), or " I heard on *** or any other of the rumour-mongers' stock-in-trade. The Internet can be a most useful tool but it is so often abused by enthusiastic claptrap! To paraphrase a common aphorism – " It's better to refrain from posting and be thought to have no useful input than to type a post and prove it!

rgds

Bill

[Dave HalfordParticipant @davehalford22513]

Posted by Bandersnatch on 17/03/2020 15:40:44:

Batty idea!

You can catch nasty things from those

[GeorgineerParticipant @georgineer]

Steve,

When you're driving I hope you can tell the difference between a delay caused by heavy traffic, and a crash.

George B.

[SteviegtrParticipant @steviegtr]

Thank you for that lovely comment.

Steve.

[Oven ManParticipant @ovenman]

According to the ISPs evening use is 10 times the daytime use so they see no problem in coping with the extra load.

Peter

[SteviegtrParticipant @steviegtr]

Posted by Oven Man on 17/03/2020 18:50:53:

According to the ISPs evening use is 10 times the daytime use so they see no problem in coping with the extra load.

Peter

Well that is good news. The piece I saw was mainly concerning people who have not upgraded to the faster broadband. It was saying it could slow down considerably. On a weekend in our village my 50mb guarantee goes up the spout. Lucky to get 10 sometimes. Usually tea times to 9pm.

Steve.

[not done it yetParticipant @notdoneityet]

The piece I saw was mainly concerning people …..

So Cornish Jack’s (and Georgineer’s) post(s) was (were) quite pertinent?😆

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

What tosh Haven't people noticed that every weekend everyone is at home.

[SteviegtrParticipant @steviegtr]

I think I now know why I get a lot of P.M's from members who do not post any more. I saw some news & mentioned it. Seems like some do not want to know. Well that is fine. But to throw insults, why not just ignore the post. I do on many an occasion.

Steve.

[Martin WParticipant @martinw]

In view of the above comments regarding potential internet speed problems I decided to run a speed test. I don't think my connection speed had varied much as it is still running at it's normal pedestrian rates of 216 Mbps download and a miserly upload speed 20 Mbps. I will keep a close eye on it and flag up any significant changes regarding the speed thereof.

Martin

[SteviegtrParticipant @steviegtr]

Tonights news.

So we are working from home can the internet handle it

With millions of people working & learning from home during the pandemic, internet networks are set to be strained to the hilt.

Steve. 

 

 

Edited By Steviegtr on 17/03/2020 19:32:45

[SteviegtrParticipant @steviegtr]

Posted by Martin W on 17/03/2020 19:27:42:

In view of the above comments regarding potential internet speed problems I decided to run a speed test. I don't think my connection speed had varied much as it is still running at it's normal pedestrian rates of 216 Mbps download and a miserly upload speed 20 Mbps. I will keep a close eye on it and flag up any significant changes regarding the speed thereof.

Martin

As yet only some people are working from home. Same as schools are still open. If or when it comes to a lockdown then I will stand by what I said. If not I will post out bags of rotten tomatoes to throw at me.

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

I'm working from home as of today and I've got a 500Mbit modem. Hope they don't expect me to work that fast.

If you are worried you can get a 1Gbit service in Portsmouth, Manchester and Reading and some other places I forget. I think you only need really fast speeds for the HSM forum when some idiot doesn't shrink their photos before posting so you have to mess about scrolling sideways to see it all. People on this forum are more considerate.

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