The Internet is probably the only entertainment we have at home. Think about it: just about everything you've been doing in these detention centers depends on little or big on the Internet. Therefore, Internet use has grown dramatically. So much so that the European Union has asked companies like Netflix, YouTube and other entertainment platforms to reduce the quality of the videos.
The growing demand for the Internet is making things difficult with telephony worldwide, and that companies were not quite ready for this. Although there are unlimited data rates, companies do not configure their networks so that all their users can be connected at the same time; This is not an easy task, but it is a different time.
As a sample, we have in Spain, Internet demand has increased by 80% due to the coronavirus-created scenario. In addition, the only day the alarm was set in our country, the use of WhatsApp increased to 500 times. These statistics are alarming.
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For this reason, fears have emerged that we are left without the Internet. Is that possible? Can we end the Internet because of the coronavirus? In fact, this fear – which we can describe as bulo – was triggered when a few days ago in Spain, some phone companies had problems in other parts of the country.
No, we can't break the Internet, but we can deal with some temporary drops
But actually it is unlikely that the network will collapse to the extent that we are left without the Internet. However, we may see a fall in the end, but it is less important than what we see at key times of the year, such as at the end of the year, when everyone calls their relatives at the same time. And not only will we see telecommunications companies deteriorate – for a while – but we will also see other services decline.
We'll see again – and you may have suffered sometime these days – how Internet speed may drop temporarily, especially on mobile phones due to the increase in connectivity. And for this reason, government departments such as the UK's Office of Public Relations are giving advice to citizens on how to behave to discourage networks, in addition to requesting a reduction in online entertainment quality. As we published yesterday, putting routers away from the microphone – or at least not using the microwave when using the Internet – is one of Ofcam's best advice.
John Graham-Cumming, director of Cloudflare, tells British Wired media that "We tend to use spikes, which we can rarely use for general expansion." However, unless the administrator acknowledges that average usage has increased, it will take more than just the continued growth of the network to bring down the entire system.
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