Riding the storm
NEWS Assumed Closed Broadband and Ethernet
STATUS
Assumed Closed
CREATED
Aug 13, 12:53 PM (11½ years ago)
AFFECTING
Broadband and Ethernet
STARTED
(0 seconds ago)
REFERENCE
1592 / AA1592
INFORMATION
  • INITIAL
    0 seconds ago by Adrian

    Well, that sporting event is over, for now. And there was indeed some extra traffic because of it. However, I am pleased to report that we managed quite well.

    The only daytime blip we had was 15:30 to 16:00 on 1st August. We had several periods during the day where we did just hit limits, but only just, and no rate limiting kicking in. This has affected our "errored seconds" stats. For 21CN the last 14 days shows as 95.5% with 20CN staying at 100.0% - this is based on seconds during which even a single packet was dropped. Levels are back to normal now and so these, and the 24 hour stats, will come back up to our target of 100.0%.

    Overall this means we coped with the traffic well, and without slowdowns (apart from around half an hour on the 1st). The backhaul links seemed mostly OK, on BT, though some congestion was apparent on some of the BE lines.

    I'd like to thank the staff for their hard work over the whole period - you deserve a gold medal.