Robert Accettura's Fun With Wordage » guness book of world records http://robert.accettura.com Robert Accettura's Personal Blog on Web Development and Tech Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:05:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 8 Million Downloads In 24 Hours http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2008/06/18/8-million-downloads-in-24-hours/ http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2008/06/18/8-million-downloads-in-24-hours/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:23:43 +0000 Robert http://robert.accettura.com/?p=1798 Continue reading →]]> It was a ton of fun to watch, absolutely addictive. 83 terabytes of data served just for downloads over 24 hours. There’s still a ton of people to update as the auto-update functionality has yet to be triggered. You can now see the scale of what’s involved. John Lilly’s got some great statistics on what just happened.

According to Arbor Networks, yesterday’s U.S. Open played at Torrey Pines (featuring Tiger Woods and a bunch of guys pretty much nobody cares about) generated so much traffic some ISP’s thought it was a DDoS attack. There was a huge spike on TCP/1935. Ironically this was about the same time Firefox 3 was unleashed. I wonder if that had any effect. Maybe next time, rather than a “world record” it should simply be “reek havoc on your ISP”.

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