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Broadband ISP Virgin Media<\/a> reports that internet download traffic on their network hit a new record on Thursday 25th Feb 2021, with the average user consuming a whopping 20.77GB (GigaBytes) of data in a single 24-hour period (3.5GB more than the daily average in 2020). An update to the Call of Duty: Warzone game was partly to blame.<\/p>\n

The provider has also analysed the behaviour of their customers across January and February 2021 to reveal some key changes, with weekday afternoons becoming the busiest time of day for upstream traffic (e.g. video calling, sending emails and uploading files etc.) for the first time ever.<\/p>\n

The peak period for people sending data is now between 2pm and 4pm, a core period for many remote workers and home learners, and represents a shift away from the long-established pattern of evenings (particularly after 6pm) being the busiest time on the network. All of this reflects the changes in society and working from home due to COVID-19<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

During this new afternoon peak period, upstream traffic has increased three-fold on pre-pandemic levels and is up 35% on the first lockdown, although Virgin Media<\/a> doesn’t provide any actual traffic figures to help support this.<\/p>\n

Download traffic has also increased during the third national lockdown. Throughout January and February, as schools were closed and temperatures plummeted, customers downloaded an extra 7.4GB of data per day when compared to the same time last year (pre-lockdown). This means customers are now using 3.1GB more data each day than during the first lockdown peak.<\/p>\n

Jeanie York, Chief Technology and Information Officer at Virgin Media<\/a>, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Our network is carrying more data than ever as consumers continue to adapt and embrace new technology that helps them work, learn, socialise and stay entertained from home.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re committed to keeping up with demand and helping our customers stay connected at a time when our ultrafast and reliable services have never been more important to millions of people\u2019s lives.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As usual, we should point out that demand for data is constantly rising and so new peaks of usage are being set all the time by every ISP (usage typically grows by 30%+ each year), although COVID-19 has certainly helped to ensure that the increase seen over the past 12-months has been much more dramatic than usual. We should add that the release of new video game consoles from Microsoft and Sony will have played their part too.<\/p>\n

One other contributing factor to the surge in usage seen during 2020 could also be the growing rollout and take-up of gigabit-capable broadband networks and packages. But we should add that most ISPs also employ Content Delivery Networks<\/strong> (CDN) to help manage the load, which caches popular content closer in the network to end-users (i.e. improves performance without network strain).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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