For all the shit he caught for that statement, he wasn’t wrong :-) Mark
> On Sep 18, 2020, at 8:32 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, as Senator Ted Stevens famously said, "the Internet is not something > that you just dump something on, it's not a big truck. It's a series of > tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled, and if they're > filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line it's going to be > delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material." > > > -----Original Message----- > From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Andy Trimmell > Sent: Friday, September 18, 2020 7:17 AM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] How do you explain a DDOS? > > 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] <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] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > <http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com> > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > <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
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