The Internet

[Varche]

Is it robust?

How long before it fails. The whole of Europe is whatsupping, video calling, netflicking, porn hubbing as well as "working from home".

Cant go out and no internet! How would people manage 

[BazaJT]

Families might to actually talk and interact with each other Heaven forbid

[Sir Tigger KC]

I signed up to Twitter recently out of curiosity and after seeing some of utterly vile shite people post, it wouldn't be a bad thing if we went back to telegrams and carrier pigeons to be honest! 

[aaronjb]

Families might to actually talk and interact with each other Heaven forbid

Er .. that's precisely what we're trying to stop, remember.


But yes, Varche, the Internet is very robust. The things you describe are not the Internet, however, just services running on it and they all have a limit of capacity. Rest assured, there will be teams of people adding capacity continuously, just as there always are.. until we're all dead, of course.

[Doctor Gollum]

Gesundheit 

[aaronjb]

I've replaced saying "bless you" with shouting "COVID-19!" every time someone sneezes .. or coughs.

My OH doesn't think it's funny...

[Andy B]

Families might to actually talk and interact with each other Heaven forbid

Our Wi-Fi wasn't working last night so I sat & chatted to the Mrs for a change.

I'm surprised to hear she no longer works at Woolworths. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Families might to actually talk and interact with each other Heaven forbid

Er .. that's precisely what we're trying to stop, remember.


But yes, Varche, the Internet is very robust. The things you describe are not the Internet, however, just services running on it and they all have a limit of capacity. Rest assured, there will be teams of people adding capacity continuously, just as there always are.. until we're all dead, of course.

Look on the bright side. A long undisturbed kip has much going for it.

[aaronjb]

Look on the bright side. A long undisturbed kip has much going for it.

Alright, Eric Idle.. 

[Rods2]

How would we cope with not 'living in interesting times'?

[Doctor Gollum]

Facebook should be turned off.

[TheBoy]

Is it robust?

How long before it fails. The whole of Europe is whatsupping, video calling, netflicking, porn hubbing as well as "working from home".

WTF are you smoking?

This is just more scare mongering by idiots posting (incorrect) fact on the likes of Arsebook. And like mail chains, is designed to get people to spread it by adding an element of fear and panic.


If you check the publicly available stats, you will see none of that has any significant impact on traffic levels, and get nowhere near the average evening peaks when people watch an after tea film on a streaming service, or update the latest game on their Xbox.


And as a network, the Internet is pretty robust - you get the occasional BGP route advertisement problem, but this is usually quickly noticed and rectified. Loading on individual services can cause that service to degrade, but the biggest conferencing system, Cisco's Webex, is coping well globally.

[TheBoy]

Facebook should be turned off.

I see Firefox are recommending that you install a special Arsebook sandbox to try to limit the amount of damage Arsebook is going.

Facebook is utterly despicable, and will do all they can to sell your private data, no matter what settings to do.  Also, remember anything you mark as private on Facebook is essentially public.

I saw a tool developed in house by one of our security teams, where, using standard Facebook APIs, it can retrieve all the personal details and posts, private or public, of them, and all their "friends", and all their "friends", and all their "friends" and so on. It has always been known that Facebook is desperately insecure, but that was an eye opener, that within seconds, it could get all this privately marked info.

The best thing anyone can do with an Arsebook account, including WhatsApp, is to change all the private info, then "delete" the account (it won't actually delete, just mark it)

[Varche]

Is it robust?

How long before it fails. The whole of Europe is whatsupping, video calling, netflicking, porn hubbing as well as "working from home".

WTF are you smoking?

This is just more scare mongering by idiots posting (incorrect) fact on the likes of Arsebook. And like mail chains, is designed to get people to spread it by adding an element of fear and panic.


If you check the publicly available stats, you will see none of that has any significant impact on traffic levels, and get nowhere near the average evening peaks when people watch an after tea film on a streaming service, or update the latest game on their Xbox.


And as a network, the Internet is pretty robust - you get the occasional BGP route advertisement problem, but this is usually quickly noticed and rectified. Loading on individual services can cause that service to degrade, but the biggest conferencing system, Cisco's Webex, is coping well globally.

Good to know. I only asked in innocence.

Talked with my nephew tonight. He starts working from home tomorrow including video conferencing. One plus from this CV19 is employers might just like saving office space and trusting their staff to work from home going forward. Might just reduce pollution and traffic jams for a while.

Why wouldnt people self isolating be watching films during the day? What else are average people confined to their houses going to do?  This being confined hasnt really happened in the UK yet.

Cant remember where I saw it but there was a meme of a builder working from home. He was sat by the phone ready with his mixer. I immediately thought of our Dave the Builder.

[dave the builder]

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Cant remember where I saw it but there was a meme of a builder working from home. He was sat by the phone ready with his mixer. I immediately thought of our Dave the Builder.

I've seen that meme 
i'm not a bricklayer
I rarely fire up the mixer these days
today i......
did some shopping, visiting (delivering to relatives)
diagnosed a "no hot water" problem
fixed an Ariel for poor reception on a roof
did some plasterboarding at home 

I can lay bricks , but if it's lots of bricks ,i call a bricklayer friend ,he's much faster /better/cheaper at bricks