London Olympics Could Destroy The Internet
Daily Mail headline!
Published: 14:15, 08/02/2012 by Tuffcub.
Businesses are being warned that the country’s internet may be slow to the point of stopping during the Olympics. The official advice in ‘Preparing your Business for the Games’ states:
It is possible that internet services may be slower during the Games or, in very severe cases, there may be dropouts due to an increased number of people accessing the internet.
Furthermore, the document states that service providers
may introduce data caps during peak times to try to spread the loading and give a more equal service to their entire customer base.
Kathryn Hurt, head of projects for MWB Business Exchange, said ‘There’s been a lot of discussion about traffic hotspots, but very little about potential internet traffic problems. The risk is that home workers are unable to work effectively due to over-capacity.’
Our advice: don’t try and play online when the women’s beach volleyball is on.
Source: The Observer
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08/02/2012 at 14:17
Member since: Aug 2008
“Don’t try and play online when the women’s beach volleyball is on” – So you are saying we should just play with ourselves?
08/02/2012 at 14:58
Member since: Mar 2009
Haaaaa!
08/02/2012 at 14:19
Member since: Mar 2009
Interesting. I would expect similar (or even worse) issues to crop up around Euro 2012 as well. Demand for VOD services has scaled far faster than the capacity and it’ll be interesting to see what kind of effect these peeks have.
08/02/2012 at 14:29
Member since: Sep 2009
Why? Euro 2012 is in Poland/Ukraine not this country so how will that affect us? Olympics I can understand but not Euro 2012.
08/02/2012 at 15:03
Member since: Apr 2011
Upload or download it’s all through the same servers – the more people going through uplinks to the same places/sites at the same time increases contention ratio and often makes servers fall over. The advantage with major tournaments is that there’s generally many geographically and ISP dispersed streams that keeps traffic from being too horrendous.
For the Olympics, I doubt it will affect many in the UK – even though there’s likely to be a lot of upstreaming, most people in the UK and nearer European countries, will watch it on traditional TV, so I think there will be little local downstreaming of footage, although it couldcause slight delays and bottlenecks on the international uplinks.
08/02/2012 at 20:52
Member since: Feb 2009
Lol, what on earth are you going on about?
The Olympics will effect us in England because of all the tourists accessing the internet while they’re here for the games. Contention ratios? Huh?
08/02/2012 at 15:22
Member since: Feb 2009
my guess? it’ll be high for a week or two, then england will be out and it’ll die down. ^_^
08/02/2012 at 14:48
Member since: Sep 2008
The story does say ‘in certain areas’. Maybe only Londoners need to worry?
The comments in the article about public transport made me laugh. My girlfriend’s employer has already said they expect everyone to be in on time during the Olympics, I know a few others who have been told the same, the trains are going to be carnage! But will operators put extra trains on? Nuuooo. F***ing Southwest Trains, grrr.
08/02/2012 at 15:00
Member since: Mar 2009
Trains are carnage as it is!
08/02/2012 at 15:18
Member since: Sep 2008
True! I’m glad I can drive to work in grubby Southampton :)
08/02/2012 at 16:42
Member since: Sep 2008
I believe that the “Internet backbone” in the UK runs directly through London, which is kind of stupid, and kind of contrary to how the Internet is meant to be designed. So I mean, it could effect the entire country if there was enough stress, which I doubt.
In fact, yes, that’s how the Internet is structured in the UK:
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography/atlas/uunet_uk_new_small.gif
08/02/2012 at 14:59
Member since: Aug 2009
Could be just London though?
Would it?
08/02/2012 at 15:36
Member since: Dec 2008
Well some of us live in London. #Posh
08/02/2012 at 15:51
Member since: Forever
did you just hashtag a comment reply?
and you used to do nothing but moan about Twitter :D
08/02/2012 at 17:30
Member since: Feb 2009
i was thinking, twitter could well go into meltdown during the olympics, this’ll be the first one where it’s been pretty much omnipresent, like it seems to be now, won’t it?
08/02/2012 at 17:59
Member since: Dec 2008
I’ve admitted I may of possibly been to harsh on Twitter.
You may remember my comment was that it was full of people posting what the had for lunch. As Hideo Kojima posts EVERY single meal he has, I still stand by arguement.
08/02/2012 at 18:55
Member since: May 2010
Hypocrite! ;) I think i’ve seen you use a lot of Hashtags on twitter, TC.
If Twitter dies during the olympics, i will do a Dan lee and spray paint my poo on Big Ben. Twitter keeps me from doing that atm. :op
08/02/2012 at 22:00
Member since: Aug 2009
what?! how could you….
09/02/2012 at 10:41
Member since: May 2010
There is a reason why i’m known as the TSA general/resident/CEO/VP loony Symp. ;)
08/02/2012 at 15:00
Member since: Mar 2009
Oh dear. I hope the Olympics is a success all round. Things like this may easily taint it for some.
08/02/2012 at 15:39
Member since: Sep 2010
Like when the National Grid have to flip a switch just after the Queens speech. It’s the Millennium Bug back from the dead, run to the hills!
08/02/2012 at 15:52
Member since: Oct 2008
Tuffcub mate, you’ll be the only person on here not watching womens beach vollyball!
08/02/2012 at 16:13
Member since: Jul 2009
Women’s beach volleyball in the English summer? It’ll likely pour down and turn in to a wet T-shirt event…
08/02/2012 at 19:28
Member since: Apr 2010
I’d watch that.
08/02/2012 at 17:35
Member since: Oct 2008
Until yesterday I worked in an MWB building. About 25 companies with a shared 2MB connection. Kathryn Hurt should sort her own bandwidth out and worry less about everyone else’s!
08/02/2012 at 19:00
Member since: May 2010
So much for using the net to ignore the olympics this summer then. :( I hope those who are self employed won’t end up losing income due to this. :S