How coronavirus could disrupt the Internet

[Jamie McKane]

How coronavirus could disrupt the Internet

With more people working from home to avoid coronavirus, will the internet break? The short answer is probably not. The longer answer is that there will be disruptions.

To protect workers and help stem the spread of Covid-19, companies like Twitter Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are telling employees who can work from home to stay home.

[Bloomberg]

 

[entrepr]

It will be a blessing if Twitter inc. goes down

 

[borro]

No

 

[MrGray]

Sensationalist nonsense, lol. If local home broadband can handle the entire neighborhood’s nightly Netflix binges then I very much doubt it’s going to fall apart because people stay at home and sit on Skype or Teams and send more email during the day.

 

[Thor]

Sensationalist nonsense, lol. If local home broadband can handle the entire neighborhood’s nightly Netflix binges then I very much doubt it’s going to fall apart because people stay at home and sit on Skype or Teams and send more email during the day.

Was a about to say this is bs

 

[ShaunSA]

Geez people are taking this schit way too seriously

 

[Bismuth]

It will be a blessing if Twitter inc. goes down

Indeed, the social media sites can fall over. MyBB can stay. I work remotely anyway, so just need an internet connection, and I'm good to go.

Sensationalist nonsense, lol. If local home broadband can handle the entire neighborhood’s nightly Netflix binges then I very much doubt it’s going to fall apart because people stay at home and sit on Skype or Teams and send more email during the day.

Yes, I work, torrent and stream music/video without hassles.

 

[Chris.Geerdts]

Sensationalist nonsense, lol. If local home broadband can handle the entire neighborhood’s nightly Netflix binges then I very much doubt it’s going to fall apart because people stay at home and sit on Skype or Teams and send more email during the day.

Webex said their traffic has grown 22x (from Jan until March 2) and that was before schools and businesses really started to shut down

 

[TheRealRaspeggi]

brah it is not that kind of virus

 

[Polymathic]

I don't local ISPs are going to handle the traffic with people working from home on their home lines whilst their kids stream Netflix