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I don't know about remote work platforms, but I know that my home internet connection has been noticeably slower and getting poorer connection for streaming/online gaming in the last couple days. I've already attributed this to the increase of people staying at home and accompanying increase to bandwidth use
The tech companies that run these systems (Cisco, Microsoft, Google, etc) are working overtime to increase system capacity. They’ve also offered their services for free.
As to whether the internet bandwidth will be enough, only cable connections are impacted by use in the neighborhood. If you’re on DSL or fiber you should not notice a slow down. There is so much extra capacity.
And MS Teams has crashed for two hours when Europe started work today.
Assuming the firm has purchased enough bandwidth, the choke point is most likely to be on the employee’s end at his or her home due to more people accessing systems at home. We did a stress test around 7:30pm with about half the workforce. May see uptick in cyberattacks directed towards VPNs and cloud providers...
Also, fwiw we use VMware.
My firm (Swiss big law) has done 4 stress tests until the capacity is now good enough to accommodate the >160 lawyers and admin staff if things go (even more) south and we all end up home. Pulse was not able to up capacity enough, so we’re on duo now.
We're using Citrix from home with no problem. NYC, DC, CT, CA, and FL.
of the firm’s professionals to handle simultaneous remote working by all of the firm’s professionals plus professional staff? Many of us will learn the truth shortly but I’m curious what the tech saavy among you really think is going to happen.
Also wonder whether there’s enough bandwidth is lawyer-dense cities like NYC and DC to handle all of the WFH traffic that is (literally) coming down the pipe, especially with so many other industries also using our internet infrastructure in the same way.
Aren’t there some firms that utilize two factor authentication so that you don’t need VPN? I have just heard of this btw. My firm doesn’t do this, I wonder how you would access files remotely on the system without vpn
My firm will do a stress test tomorrow morning, all legal staff told to take their computers home and use the VPN.
My guess is that most firm’s VPN systems are designed/budgeted for at most 50-60% of all users trying to access it simultaneously (until December, I don’t think any executive committee would have green-lighted an overengineered system that would allow a solid external conection for 1000+ people).
With that said, our work is definitely not data intensive, so maybe the systems can handle it.