Is the Global internet also affected by the lockdown?

[Caspersfriend]

Maybe just a coincidence ... ?! .... but is the latest 'emergency rule' enactment also involving the 'single gateway'?

 

This morning I was incorporating a new router and found that, even though it gave far superior WiFi results over the ISP's unit, I couldn't access many of my streaming providers.

 

When I enabled my VPN they immediately returned.

 

Just wondering .........

Edited March 26, 2020 by Caspersfriend

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Might not just be a Thailand thing.

 

There has been issues elsewhere. Facebook and YouTube recently announced they were reducing video quality in order to relieve demand on internet infrastructure.

 

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/23/coronavirus-facebook-to-reduce-video-streaming-quality-in-europe.html

 

 

[KhunBENQ]

12 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

There has been issues elsewhere. Facebook and YouTube recently announced they were reducing video quality in order to relieve demand on internet infrastructure.

In Germany Netflix, Youtube and maybe others have voluntarily limited video quality.

Also (online) gamers are under pressure.

Not the time for 4k/UDH streaming.

Not the time for 100 GB(!) game software updates.

 

On the other hand the traffic increase is still limited at the biggest German exchange (DE-CIX), about 10%.

But new all time peak traffic there with 9.134 TBit/s (9134 GBit/s).

Edited March 26, 2020 by KhunBENQ

[KhunBENQ]

2 hours ago, Caspersfriend said:

I couldn't access many of my streaming providers.

Really "not found", "timeout"?

Or what is the effect?

Could you provide at least one example link?

 

Could be a DNS problem.