EU regulations with such things are vastly different than in the US. On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 12:08 PM Mike Bolitho <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was getting blasted earlier for suggesting streaming services and gaming > DLCs could likely be slowed by government intervention. EU is currently > working with Netflix to do just that. It's currently a strong suggestion > and even a plead but I maintain that we're going to see this pushed harder > in the coming weeks. > > In a statement on Thursday, Breton said that given the unprecedented > situation, streaming platforms, telecom operators and users "all have a > joint responsibility to take steps to ensure the smooth functioning of the > internet during the battle against the virus propagation." > > https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/tech/netflix-internet-overload-eu/index.html > > > - Mike Bolitho > > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 5:03 AM Mark Tinka <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On 19/Mar/20 04:35, Scott Weeks wrote: >> > >> > >> > We do about 70-80Gbps at peak over the external >> > BGP links we have and I am not seeing a large >> > increase nor am I seeing it spread out over time. >> > We're an eyeball network plus some really large >> > customers. >> > >> > Anyone else seeing something different? We're >> > now into the 3rd day, so I thought I'd see >> > something change by now. >> >> South Africa and a few other African countries put countries on >> semi-lockdown from about Sunday. >> >> We've seen a 15% increase in peak traffic on our network since the 17th. >> >> Mark. >> >
