Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

[Tom Deligiannis <tom.deligiannis () gmail com>]

>   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.
>
> I'd think they'd be able to come out of sleep mode on their own, download
> the update, then go back to sleep.

Xbox has this feature, but it doesn't work very well. A quick google search
shows that many users have their consoles set to receive updates, but that
feature doesn't seem to be working properly.

Tom

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 1:46 PM Mike Hammett <nanog () 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.
>
> I'd think they'd be able to come out of sleep mode on their own, download
> the update, then go back to sleep.
>
>
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> *From: *"Seth Mattinen" <sethm () rollernet us>
> *To: *nanog () nanog org
> *Sent: *Wednesday, February 12, 2020 1:42:21 PM
> *Subject: *Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that
>
> On 2/12/20 11:31, Livingood, Jason wrote:
> > But I think folks are correct that the issue may be more that a given
> gaming device was turned off at night (though no reason that device could
> not pre-cache the content from the source). In any case, there should be a
> better way to address this. The Internet will see more and more of these
> downloads and smoothing the impact out seems prudent for all involved.
>
>
> Putting my end user hat on, I turn off all my consoles when I'm not
> using them, often for weeks. When I get home and it looks like I'll have
> time to play after dinner I'll turn one of them on and let it
> download/install. I don't really care that my off work and dinner times
> might not be convenient for my ISP to download giant files. I fully
> understand the ISP's perspective, but I'm not going to start leaving my
> consoles on 24x7.
>
> The way to address this used to be this thing called "physical media"
> that held games, but nowadays even when I have a game on disc it has to
> download at least one massive patch before it will play.