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Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks
From: "Radu-Adrian Feurdean" <nanog () radu-adrian feurdean net>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 11:24:16 +0100
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020, at 04:31, Darin Steffl wrote:
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.
My experience at $job[$now] (IXP) and $job[-1] (ISP with residential users) show otherwise. ISP-side traffic comes inbound from ASNs hosting gaming platforms, and IXP-side, gaming platforms have no issues taking 100G ports and pushing lots of traffic on them. Ratio-wise, they seem very much "heavy outbound". When new games are released, we see extra traffic from CDNs. Even if a game does not generate much traffic, in a MMO context every user pushes one data stream but receives several ones. And there may be reasons (avoiding cheats) where traffic pushed from the gaming platform contains more then each user's actions. IMO, it depends on how game handles inter-player communication. I do recall playing some serverless networked games some 15-20 years ago, with 3 players each on their own ADSL or cable, and the upstream (in the 512-800 Kbps range) never getting saturated.
Current thread:
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks, (continued)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Jeff Shultz (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Tom Beecher (Mar 16)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Livingood, Jason (Mar 16)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 17)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Christian (Mar 17)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 17)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Carsten Bormann (Mar 17)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 14)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Radu-Adrian Feurdean (Mar 14)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Craig (Mar 14)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Owen DeLong (Mar 13)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Joe Hamelin (Mar 14)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Fletcher Kittredge (Mar 13)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Ben Cannon (Mar 13)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Alexandre Petrescu (Mar 17)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Matt Hoppes (Mar 19)