As many countries are in lockdown it will be really interesting to see some usage data....
Ask HN: Is anyone keeping statistics about internet usage during COVID-19?
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Re: Ask HN: Is anyone keeping statistics about internet usage during COVID-19?
#2Google tracks how many people connect with IPv6, which is a metric for how many people are staying at home:
https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
IPv6 connections peak in the weekend and over the Christmas break, when people are connecting from home.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone keeping statistics about internet usage during COVID-19?
#3Cloudflare's blog posts about COVID-19 impact on the internet is a good starting place:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-during-the-coronaviru... and https://blog.cloudflare.com/covid-19-impacts-on-internet-tra...
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone keeping statistics about internet usage during COVID-19?
#4I only can say that I read that the major internet service providers on Spain are nearly at the limit of what can handle.
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#5Re: Ask HN: Is anyone keeping statistics about internet usage during COVID-19?
#6Cloudflare's blog posts about COVID-19 impact on the internet is a good starting place: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-during-the-coronaviru... and https://blog.cloudflare.com/covid-19-impacts-on-internet-tra...
Yes, we are. We are watching it very carefully. What do you want to know?
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone keeping statistics about internet usage during COVID-19?
#7Most CIX do have a statistics website. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_exchange_poin...
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet-Knoten#Tabelle_intern...
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone keeping statistics about internet usage during COVID-19?
#8Cloudflare's blog posts about COVID-19 impact on the internet is a good starting place: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-during-the-coronaviru... and https://blog.cloudflare.com/covid-19-impacts-on-internet-tra...
Yes, we are. We are watching it very carefully. What do you want to know?
What's the delta in average daily throughput and peaks at your exchange points at different COVID milestones (China quarantine, Italy quarantine, France quarantine, US national emergency declared)?
I assume traffic utilization has jumped, just curious by how much.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone keeping statistics about internet usage during COVID-19?
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, we are. We are watching it very carefully. What do you want to know?
What's the delta in average daily throughput and peaks at your exchange points at different COVID milestones (China quarantine, Italy quarantine, France quarantine, US national emergency declared)? I assume traffic utilization has jumped, just curious by how much.
We are publishing data on our blog: https://blog.cloudflare.com/covid-19-impacts-on-internet-tra...
Stay tuned.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone keeping statistics about internet usage during COVID-19?
#10My gigabit home internet was consistently up/down at 890-920mbps but since the outbreak it is only at 490-510mbps. :(