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IANA's email about why example.com changed | Oliver Dunk (www.oliverdunk.com)
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[–] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (6 children)

I'm very curious about how much bandwidth it consumes. Even with the small amount of content, I wouldn't be surprised if it's over 1Gbps.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s over 1Gbps.

    The site is about 2kB. In order to consume 1Gbps it would need about 62 000 visitors every second, assuming no one uses any kind of cache or anything. Or 5,4 billion visitors daily. Not impossible, but I'd guess the real number isn't quite that much.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago*

    I was thinking more about automated usage. There's probably a lot of devices that hit it to check for internet connectivity. The linked article says that most of the traffic is automated and they saved bandwidth by putting some content in a JS file (since most of the automated hits don't download or run the JS).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    Can you break out your math? I'm thinking when you add in all the handshakes, rst, retransmits it would be high but I'm too lazy to do math myself

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I didn't take any overhead in account, just checked that the site itself was a bit under 2kB worth of data. 1 gigabit / 2 kilobytes = 62500, so in order to consume 1Gbps you'll need about that 62k visitors every second. Handshake is few hundred bits and other overhead is pretty neglible, but those are still not zero so I just rounded it down for a rough ballpark number.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    probably a hell of a lot. I do a lot of travelling for work and thus I'm always connecting to open wifi spots (with a vpn naturally) and many times my browser won't pick up the capture portal automatically so I use example.com or neverssl.com to trigger the capture portal. It's also the site I use to a very quick/dirty internet test.

    I imagine most people use it the same way.

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