With daily life changing for many around the world due to the coronavirus pandemic, a huge surge in internet traffic has led to worries over the resilience of the infrastructure that keeps things humming.
"This is an increase we would normally expect to see in a year," Chintan Patel,chief technologist in the U.K., told CNBC. "We're now obviously seeing that in a matter of days and weeks."
Experts say that, whereas the busy period for streaming in households would normally last around four hours on a weekday evening, that's now risen to as much as 10 hours a day. "The internet is not just one thing," he told CNBC. "It's like a living breathing human with lots of different neurons and connection points working to keep it alive."Throttling streaming quality
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