Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

[Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>]

PS4 has the same slate of options. The Switch I believe only ever updates
when on.

Steam on my PC is also very configurable when it comes to when update
downloads, along with throttling options.

None of this matters though. Most of these games that cause such traffic
bursts are very large, often global games. 3am for one carrier is 3pm for a
carrier somewhere else.

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 22:03 Brandon Jackson via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
wrote:

> Xbox One has 2 options, always one (equivalent to windows sleep) and will
> wake up occasionally for updates, and power save (equivalent to hibernate
> ish) it will not wake up for updates.
>
>
> Brandon Jackson
> Bojack1437 () gmail com
> 478-387-8687
>
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 21:51 Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net> wrote:
>
> > IIRC, game consoles are always on, whether they're "on" or not.
> >
> >
> >
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> > Mike Hammett
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> > ------------------------------
> > *From: *"Tom Beecher" <beecher () beecher cc>
> > *To: *"Darin Steffl" <darin.steffl () mnwifi com>
> > *Cc: *Nanog () nanog org
> > *Sent: *Saturday, January 25, 2020 5:13:19 PM
> > *Subject: *Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that
> >
> > Not everybody leaves their console/PC on 24/7 so that they would pull the
> > patch at 3am local even if that’s when it was released.
> >
> > It’s far from reckless. It’s not the game companies job to make sure the
> > network works. That’s our job.
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 14:37 Darin Steffl <darin.steffl () mnwifi com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Shouldn't game patches like this be released overnight during off-peak
> > > hours? Fortnite releases their updates around 3 or 4am when most ISP's
> > > networks are at their lowest utilization. It seems somewhat reckless to
> > > release such a large patch during awake hours.
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 12:08 PM Brandon Jackson via NANOG <
> > > nanog () nanog org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare fragged our business VOIP: US ISP blames
> > > > outage on smash-hit video game rush
> > > > This is Windstream, going dark..."
> > > > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/23/windstream_fvoip_outage/
> > > >
> > > > Apparently not everyone came out unscathed.
> > > >
> > > > ----------------------------------
> > > > Brandon Jackson
> > > > bjackson () napshome net
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:14 AM Aaron Gould <aaron1 () gvtc com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > My gosh, what in the word was that coming out of my local Akamai aanp
> > > > > servers yesterday !?  starting at about 12:00 noon central time lasting
> > > > > several hours ?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > -Aaron