Can Australia internet handle what’s coming it’s way??

[gronk]

Streaming 4K you'll probably struggle with 21mbps

The apple tv can stream 4K, but I don't think it does as the TV is an old plasma ? Plus I'm on the cheap plan...standard HD.

[jtraf]

Most schools are falling over themselves to get online learning setup.  Most are falling back to zoom and pegging their hopes on the platform.

When we had our staff meeting the other day I advised to the people in my org that even though we have been setup for Remote Desktop access to the environment for a number of years that the contention on the links and flooding of the network around your personal connection may see this fall over.

We will be OK till the second term starts and schools start to push lessons out to the thousands of student accross the network.  Going to be a lot of stressed IT people who get flooded with very little option than to say that the internet is the weak point and there is nothing we can do about it.

[Bird]

Most schools are falling over themselves to get online learning setup.  Most are falling back to zoom and pegging their hopes on the platform.

When we had our staff meeting the other day I advised to the people in my org that even though we have been setup for Remote Desktop access to the environment for a number of years that the contention on the links and flooding of the network around your personal connection may see this fall over.

We will be OK till the second term starts and schools start to push lessons out to the thousands of student accross the network.  Going to be a lot of stressed IT people who get flooded with very little option than to say that the internet is the weak point and there is nothing we can do about it.

we are already noticing the speed drop with VPN users ... Even though most are citrix apps its going to get nasty

[Mace]

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/mar/19/netflix-to-slow-europe-transmissions-to-avoid-broadband-overload

Netflix has agreed to slow down the speed at which it delivers shows to subscribers to reduce its traffic across Europe by 25% – a measure that may affect picture quality for some viewers – in a deal with the EU to ensure that broadband networks perform adequately as millions of people confined to their homes go online.

Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings agreed to slow the bit rate at which it delivers programming, which determines the size and quality of video and audio files, across Europe and the UK for 30 days. Netflix has 51 million users across Europe, including 11 million in the UK.


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The agreement comes after talks with Thierry Breton, the industry commissioner of the EU’s executive arm, the European commission.

“Following the discussions between commissioner Thierry Breton and Reed Hastings – and given the extraordinary challenges raised by the coronavirus – Netflix has decided to begin reducing bit rates across all our streams in Europe for 30 days,” said a Netflix spokesman.

“We estimate that this will reduce Netflix traffic on European networks by around 25% while also ensuring a good quality service for our members.”

[Bird]

The big test is about to start tomorrow morning..

The ISP's and NBN are making changes to assist... but what about after all this finishes in a year or so? Back to crap internet?

[gronk]

The big test is about to start tomorrow morning..

The ISP's and NBN are making changes to assist... but what about after all this finishes in a year or so? Back to crap internet?

Or go to Somalia...still getting around in horse and carts, but beat us for internet speeds ??  Sometimes we are the lucky country...other times we are smucks !!

[CTL]

Or go to Somalia...still getting around in horse and carts, but beat us for internet speeds ??  Sometimes we are the lucky country...other times we are smucks !!

You can NOT be serious.  What a stupid statement.

[Bird]

MyGov site is struggling... couldnt get to log on, then could... then cant log in... then can.. then next page freezes..

[Hairs]

REST's app is struggling.
Pretty sure the total is wrong, last email(3 weeks ago) said $xxxxxxx, only showing  a 5th of that.
Plus I can't update details, the never ending circle of thinking appears.

[Spada]

Mrs Spada's office is trialling "work from home" today (she's in the office to monitor what is working from her team at their homes), not going well apparently with with everything going slow?

[Pete79]

MyGov site is struggling... couldnt get to log on, then could... then cant log in... then can.. then next page freezes..

Apparently it was hit by a denial of service attack.

https://abc.net.au/news/2020-03-23/mygov-website-down-centrelink-massive-queues-coronavirus/12080558?pfmredir=sm

[Fizzie]

Apparently it was hit by a denial of service attack.

Out of China

[Bird]

Apparently it was hit by a denial of service attack.

https://abc.net.au/news/2020-03-23/mygov-website-down-centrelink-massive-queues-coronavirus/12080558?pfmredir=sm

[Bird]

I picked it like a dirty nose


“MyGov has not been offline, it’s simply suffered from a distributed denial of service attack this morning,” he told reporters, but refused to provide more detail on whether it was an attack from overseas or not.


But by question time, at 2.55pm, Robert was forced to take back his statement, telling parliament that it wasn’t an attack but just the alarms that are designed to detect and stop DDoS attacks triggering due to the large volume of people trying to log in.

MyGov had last week been able to cope with about 6,000 users logging on at once, but Robert said this was upgraded to 55,000 over the weekend in expectation that many more Australians would have been logging on after the increase in business shutdowns as a result of the coronavirus pandemic forcing more people into unemployment.


https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/mar/23/incompetence-attack-mygov-website-did-not-crash-because-of-ddos-cyber-assault-as-stuart-robert-claimed

[tryagain]

The website is going to need to be able to cope with a lot more than 55,000 people, chatted to a few people who employ today and they will all likely be laying of people in near future, expect to see the unemployment rate skyrocket.

[tedota]

Unemployment rate at around 5.3 or so and the economists predicted it will go to about 7 or so like when the GFC happened. 15-20 percent would be my guess.
Feel so sorry for anyone affected and the snowball effect it is going to have.

[gronk]

The website is going to need to be able to cope with a lot more than 55,000 people, chatted to a few people who employ today and they will all likely be laying of people in near future, expect to see the unemployment rate skyrocket.

Pollie on TV tonight said they are trying to employ an extra 5,000 people to handle the load ?

That's 10 calls each a day.....that's 3 before cuppa tea time, 3 before lunch and a whopping 4 after lunch   But to be fair, they will have to process 10 online claims a day as well !!   

[Bird]

The website is going to need to be able to cope with a lot more than 55,000 people, chatted to a few people who employ today and they will all likely be laying of people in near future, expect to see the unemployment rate skyrocket.

They said <90,000 were trying to log on.... with the queues at centerlink, and this going on - I dont think they are on the right planet... they have no idea.

[Fizzie]

They said <90,000 were trying to log on.... with the queues at centerlink, and this going on - I dont think they are on the right planet... they have no idea.

& then you have the "normal" load of people trying to do their fortnightly reporting

So if you can't get through to report, do your payments then stop

[Bird]

& then you have the "normal" load of people trying to do their fortnightly reporting

So if you can't get through to report, do your payments then stop

Good question... add that to the 2034982349820948203942039 other unanswered/grey areas we currently have.

[Bird]

Works VPN has started to fail

[Pete79]

Works VPN has started to fail

Official communication from our head office overseas;
All European employees struggling with their country’s VPN connection can log on to the Australian VPN.
No body is connected to that one....

[Fizzie]

Good question... add that to the 2034982349820948203942039 other unanswered/grey areas we currently have.

just flicked an e-mail to our Fed Member suggesting that those obligations be cancelled.

We'll see what happens

[Mace]

Our 46.3/14.8 Mbps last night went to 12.0/15.6 Mbps at 8:30AM.
At 9:00 I cant find a server on speedtest.

[Paddler Ed]

Ours seems to be about normal (which has surprised me given how many in the area covered by our tower are likely to be working from home) and importantly, we seem to have picked up a bit of signal strength on the box (I now have 3x green lights instead of 2x amber more often), which is good - just grabs that little bit more each time it seems.


I suspect it's going to show the ISPs that are working and those that are over-subscribed to what they can offer.