Ask HN: Is anyone keeping statistics about internet usage during COVID-19?

10 points by etuil 6y ago ↗ HN

As many countries are in lockdown it will be really interesting to see some usage data....

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liamdiprose 6y ago ↗

Google 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.

twunde 6y ago ↗

Cloudflare'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...

jgrahamc 6y ago ↗

Yes, we are. We are watching it very carefully. What do you want to know?

toomuchtodo 6y ago ↗

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.

jgrahamc 6y ago ↗

We are publishing data on our blog: https://blog.cloudflare.com/covid-19-impacts-on-internet-tra...

Stay tuned.

Zardoz84 6y ago ↗

I only can say that I read that the major internet service providers on Spain are nearly at the limit of what can handle.

uint16_t 6y ago ↗

https://www.de-cix.net/en/locations/germany/frankfurt/statis...

uint16_t 6y ago ↗

Most 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...

austincheney 6y ago ↗

My gigabit home internet was consistently up/down at 890-920mbps but since the outbreak it is only at 490-510mbps. :(