Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

[Josh Luthman <josh () imaginenetworksllc com>]

Because the disks are shut off by default in standby mode.

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On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 2:53 PM Tom Deligiannis <tom.deligiannis () gmail com>
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.
>
> 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.