Re: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

2020-03-17 Thread Job Snijders
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020, at 19:38, Dan White wrote: > By "ahead of us", I'm hoping to glean some operational experience from > European, or networks in larger cities with a more impactful lock > down. It is all fairly new here too. Some of the things that have come to mind so far: - the supply

Re: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

2020-03-17 Thread Dan White
On 03/17/20 19:25 +0100, Alexandre Petrescu wrote: Le 17/03/2020 à 19:17, Dan White a écrit : Things have been eerily quiet where we are (Oklahoma). We're an eyeball network and have had no noticeable changes in bandwidth usage that couldn't be explained by statistical noise. We keep game

Re: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

2020-03-17 Thread Alexandre Petrescu
rom: NANOG On Behalf Of Rishi Singh Sent: Friday, March 13, 2020 8:25 AM To: Jared Mauch Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus Curious if anyone here (especially at CenturyLink / AT/ Comcast) has seen any graphs of netwo

Re: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

2020-03-17 Thread Dan White
l networks… we are also seeing new, slightly higher evening peaks. From: NANOG On Behalf Of Rishi Singh Sent: Friday, March 13, 2020 8:25 AM To: Jared Mauch Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus Curious if a

RE: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

2020-03-14 Thread John van Oppen
broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus Curious if anyone here (especially at CenturyLink / AT/ Comcast) has seen any graphs of network traffic over time and could share details (redacted of course due to the sensitivity). Would love to hear if/how capacity is constrained

Re: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

2020-03-14 Thread Rishi Singh
Curious if anyone here (especially at CenturyLink / AT/ Comcast) has seen any graphs of network traffic over time and could share details (redacted of course due to the sensitivity). Would love to hear if/how capacity is constrained with more people working form home. On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 4:36

Re: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

2020-03-13 Thread Owen DeLong
Jared Mauch > > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2020 6:34 PM > To: Sean Donelan > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet > customers due to coronavirus > > I do worry if the broadband networks have the capacity. WFH traffic is &g

Re: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

2020-03-13 Thread lobna gouda
Jared Mauch Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2020 6:34 PM To: Sean Donelan Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus I do worry if the broadband networks have the capacity. WFH traffic is usually different from regular cons

Re: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

2020-03-13 Thread Steve Meuse
But why do they peak in the late evening? 'cause that's when folks are home. If you now have a houseful of work-from-home and school-from-home people, we could, potentially, see the curve change, especially if folks are working and watching netflix/youtube, etc. I suspect rather than the

Re: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

2020-03-13 Thread Jeff Shultz
But it's so much fun to market that we don't have caps - and our cable competitor does. Expensive ones, too. Never stop your enemy when they are making a mistake. On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 5:04 PM Clayton Zekelman wrote: > > No they didn't do the right thing. The right > thing would have been

Re: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

2020-03-13 Thread Ben Cannon
Effing. This. -Ben > On Mar 12, 2020, at 11:16 PM, Mark Tinka wrote: > >  > >> On 13/Mar/20 02:02, Clayton Zekelman wrote: >> >> >> >> No they didn't do the right thing. The right thing would have been >> to eliminate the caps a decade ago. > > Don't get me started on this :-). > >

Re: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

2020-03-13 Thread Mark Tinka
On 13/Mar/20 04:00, Jared Mauch wrote: > Yes, this is what I’m concerned about. Most of the content/cloud people have > built networks around the capacity needed to get bits into the networks and > often aggressively peer. > > The corporate office that is behind one incumbent that now has a

Re: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

2020-03-13 Thread Mark Tinka
On 13/Mar/20 02:02, Clayton Zekelman wrote: > > > No they didn't do the right thing.   The right thing would have been > to eliminate the caps a decade ago. Don't get me started on this :-). Mark.

Re: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

2020-03-12 Thread Jared Mauch
> On Mar 12, 2020, at 6:55 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Mar 2020, Tom Paseka wrote: >> I am not worried. Residential ISPs are usually at peak in the late evening. >> They have loads of capacity during the day. > > Do they have capacity to the right places? > > The evening traffic

Re: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

2020-03-12 Thread Clayton Zekelman
No they didn't do the right thing. The right thing would have been to eliminate the caps a decade ago. At 07:09 PM 12/03/2020, Sabri Berisha wrote: - On Mar 12, 2020, at 3:55 PM, Sean Donelan s...@donelan.com wrote: > On Thu, 12 Mar 2020, Tom Paseka wrote: Hi, >> I am not

Re: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

2020-03-12 Thread Sabri Berisha
- On Mar 12, 2020, at 3:55 PM, Sean Donelan s...@donelan.com wrote: > On Thu, 12 Mar 2020, Tom Paseka wrote: Hi, >> I am not worried. Residential ISPs are usually at peak in the late evening. >> They have loads of capacity during the day. > > Do they have capacity to the right places? > >

Re: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

2020-03-12 Thread Lyle Giese
Comcast announced the same and also lowering or eliminating fees for low income homes in the short term. Lyle Giese LCR Computer Services, Inc. On 2020-03-12 17:34, Jared Mauch wrote: I do worry if the broadband networks have the capacity. WFH traffic is usually different from regular

Re: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

2020-03-12 Thread Sean Donelan
On Thu, 12 Mar 2020, Tom Paseka wrote: I am not worried. Residential ISPs are usually at peak in the late evening. They have loads of capacity during the day. Do they have capacity to the right places? The evening traffic peak is usually streaming entertainment bits from CDNs on the edge of

Re: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

2020-03-12 Thread Tom Paseka via NANOG
I am not worried. Residential ISPs are usually at peak in the late evening. They have loads of capacity during the day. On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 3:35 PM Jared Mauch wrote: > I do worry if the broadband networks have the capacity. WFH traffic is > usually different from regular consumer traffic.

Re: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

2020-03-12 Thread Jared Mauch
I do worry if the broadband networks have the capacity. WFH traffic is usually different from regular consumer traffic. My neighbors were telling me about the mandatory work from home they had today and how the VPN struggled to work. To those upgrading those things, keep at it. You will get

AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

2020-03-12 Thread Sean Donelan
The first data cap waiver I've seen due to coronavirus. I expect other ISPs to quickly follow. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v74qzb/atandt-suspends-broadband-usage-caps-during-coronavirus-crisis AT is the first major ISP to confirm that it will be suspending all broadband usage caps