Why is working from home putting strain on the internet?
If these people were at work, they'd still be sending the same amount of data down the wires?? I suspect It's not as simple as that though, anyone know?
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For example, at work, I'm already connected to our internal network, so there is no internet traffic for most of what I do. At home, I have to connect to our network via a VPN, so all my traffic is going over the internet. |
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Also, because they’re not really working, they’re on Netflix.
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Thanks for clearing that up. ---------- Post added at 17:11 ---------- Previous post was at 17:10 ---------- Quote:
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To: John Smith AT CORPORATE But to send email outside the business it would be johnsmithswife@ntlworld.com AT INTERNET Needless to say you were only allowed access to the internet gateway if you had a valid business reason. As businesses moved to mail systems like MS Outlook or others that seamlessly integrated intranet and internet messaging, they tended to adopt today’s more familiar email addressing format, so today John’s messaging address regardless of whether he’s being contacted internally or externally is John.smith@globalbogroll.com . But there is still a corporate network hiding behind it all, which transfers email within the busniess, without tasking the public internet service. |
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Yep, they log in to our remote desktop system, then use Teams on there. All of a sudden, the load on our network connection goes up exponentially. To explain the extra load. If a user logs on to teams with their own computer, my company's infrastructure is not involved at all beyond the initial authentication (and I don't know how involved it is in that). If they log in to remote desktop, they consume one of our Remote Desktop licences, then are transferring potentially many megabytes of data as mouse/keyboard inputs to their virtual desktop are transferred to the server, and the results are transferred back. |
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From an email sent out bt BT.
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Yep, Netflix is reducing their bandwidth by 25% to help with this.
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BT confirmed the other day that record levels of bandwidth were in use when Tottenham played their last Champions League tie and at the same time an update to Red Dead Redemption 2 was released. This was 3.5x normal daytime bandwidth usage. Home working, even millions of people doing so, barely nudges the dial. More people in self isolation in the evenings (and entire countries in lockdown), on top of normal evening usage, is more likely be be the reason they’ve reduced the bandwidth. |
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For me although my VPN means traffic is over the internet most of my work is done on a virtual Linux desktop so all the traffic on that is just with in the company and only "display" changes are pushed to my local machine.
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My lab puts all the meetings on video conference, but normally there are a lot of people in the actual room for face to face discussion. Now everyone is connecting from home the conference servers are overloaded.
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Apparently, that was unfair :D:D:D |
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