The best explanation is just like the water system as well. If theres a water main break everyone suffers, boil water, low water pressure, etc. I usually explain the internet is a giant road system when people talk about lag and such. "well it takes longer to drive to California than to Chicago so yes its going to take longer" kind of thing. The "bowling ball down a garden hose" analogy has been used a few times as well.
Interneting is as hard as adulting. Andy Trimmell Business Manager PDS Connect 317-831-3000 -----Original Message----- From: AF [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nate Burke Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 7:03 PM To: Animal Farm Subject: [AFMUG] How do you explain a DDOS? Just tried to explain to a working mother, while she was at work, with multiple kids at home, how a DDOS works, and why I had to shut her Internet off. My examples of how a DDOS affects the upstream circuits, apparently were really bad, and now she think that she's 'sharing' her internet with all her neighbors, and 'Never would have signed up if I was just sharing with my neighbors', and 'why am I able to affect any of my neighbors, that means they can affect me' She also said that her internet CAN'T be shut off, if just 1 kid in the house caused the problem, because all the other kids still need to do school. I told her to talk to her kids about online gaming, but I'm sure in her eyes, they are all little angels, probably just playing the Sesame Street game all day long. I get it, she's probably stressed, and so comprehending what I was saying was hard. I'm running into the problem of 'this makes perfect sense to me' So I can't come up with a better way to explain it. Does anyone have a good analogy, or call center script to explain what is happening? -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
