At this point in time, we are all well aware of the substantial impacts the COVID-19 virus is having on the world. With significant actions being taken around the country to prevent the spread of the virus, the public is being asked to social distance and stay inside away from others as much as possible. This has led to non-essential businesses closing shop in efforts to prevent employees from being in close contact with one another. Those that are able, and lucky enough, to perform their job remotely are being asked to do so by employers. As a result, people are moving their work offices and beginning to carry out job tasks in their own homes. The circumstances are unprecedented, and many are scrambling to ensure that work and school can continue on as regularly as possible. As a result of this transition, concerns are being raised on whether or not necessary technology can continue to work efficiently outside of offices and schools. Now, internet providers must answer the question of, how can smaller scaled home internet services possibly keep up with the sudden demand of usage?
What will be a significant issue with employees transitioning their workload to perform at home is that internet broadband services most have in their homes is not built to carry the amount of traffic that will be demanded. Work sites such as large offices and schools typically carry what is known as enterprise grade internet service, which can manage a large amount of traffic at once. The infrastructure of at home internet services, which most consumers use, consist of lower capacity broadband plans. When using internet for demanding tasks such as video calling, streaming, or large file downloads, some may experience stalls, and overall slowness in operations they are trying to perform.
Cities which have become centers for COVID-19 outbreaks, such as Seattle and San Francisco, are already experiencing a spike in internet usage. However, amidst the sudden surge providers such as Verizon, Cox, Comcast, and more are confident in their internet services abilities to maintain performance. These major companies are claiming that they will begin to boost their services in the days to come to satisfy sudden demands.
You might be wondering what you can do if you are ever experiencing slow internet service when trying to work remotely or complete schoolwork on your home WiFi. Some helpful tips for when your internet service may be holding you back is to look at what devices that are not being used in your home are connected to the same network. Keep these devices off or unplugged for the time being. Also, make sure that others in your home are not connected to the same network, or trying to do demanding tasks such as stream, or any type of video calling. In addition, ethernet cables can be used to plug into your device directly from the internet router. Doing this may help the strength of the internet connection.
Although these are trying times, we must all find alternative ways to go on with life with as much normalcy as there is granted to us. During this time we ask you all to share below helpful ways in which those of us working from home can use services via the internet to better perform tasks! Let us all help each other succeed as much as we can during this time.
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