Cable, wireless, satalite outages?

[MtnMan]

Last night it appears most providers had large outages all across the country, and all at the same time.

All of the major cable companies, wireless providers (AT&T, Verizon) and even Dish was effected.

Sunspots, hackers, major infrastructure failure that would effect all of them?

https://downdetector.com/

 

[Gryz]

People were watching the boxing game.
I believe it was streamed online by HBO ? Maybe by other companies too ? A stream in HD-quality can take 2 Mbps I believe. Throw in a few millions people watching 2Mbps streams, and I think the average bandwidth usage might have gone up a few percents in some places on the Internet.

Valve once stated that when they released a new version of their moba-game (DotA), they filled a few dozen 100Gbps pipes from their own networks to many ISPs in the world. Those Terabits were two percent or so from the total traffic on the global Internet ! That's huge, imho. 2 Mbps per stream might not be much, but when millions are watching, it adds up.

Of course, it could have been something totally unrelated.

 

[XavierMace]

I didn't notice any issues last night.

 

[azazel1024]

Gryz, SD is 2Mbps. A basic 720p stream is going to be around 3-4Mbps and a basic 1080p is going to be about 7Mbps. This is for reasonable quality. Low quality you can halve those numbers (but there will be rather significant compression artifacts). A GOOD high quality stream is going to be roughly double those numbers (about 3-4Mbps for a high quality SD, about 5-7Mbps for a high quality 720p and 10-12Mbps for 1080p).

 

[imagoon]

Last night it appears most providers had large outages all across the country, and all at the same time.

All of the major cable companies, wireless providers (AT&T, Verizon) and even Dish was effected.

Sunspots, hackers, major infrastructure failure that would effect all of them?

https://downdetector.com/

Network issues at downdetector.com would also make it appear there was mass outages.