V12 – Odd or Annoying Happenings!?
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It would be good to see in a list what was actually updated so we know. I see mines was updated also. I can’t find that information anywhere.
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Something to bear in mind are game updates aka Fortnite, COD etc. and how they might knockon.
There have been quite a few sub-cable cuts as well which can see variation but this for the most part is an on-off reroute/reconverge, whereas game updates (Fridays was 26GB) can feel like a DDOS in how the routes can flap etc, not to mention the local loads.
We have on occasion had the pleasure of route flap further upstream from AUS and anyone who lives on an ‘almost’ net neutral environment, where line rates are encouraged over shaped services, might tell you ‘yeah the other night was a dog’ etc
What you could see is your service grind to a halt almost making old school VoIP of 16kbit look sexy, to various upstream internet exchanges (IX) hemorrhaging and dropping packets under load, all the while killing your TCP sessions (mass rst) and making for a ‘poor-user-experience’ all around.
I’m not sure how the system testers ‘see or feel’ this but anything that hurts packet transmission and comes through in a wave across continents is a tricky thing to deal with unless your adjacent or on-net (peering/direct links etc) and are uncontended (with little network congestion).
IF your transmission path takes you via a similar IXs, in/egress it’s food for thought. We see some of it in AUS, simply because we were at one point like a ‘router on a stick’ and when subcables get hit now (anchors or else) we revert to something near about to where we once were – router on a stick / one-armed.
So as you can see there’s a bit to contend with at times …. pun intended ……. 🙂
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