Internet disrupted in Russia amid opposition protests

Re:Internet disrupted in Russia amid opposition protests by rossdavidh on Saturday January 23, 2021 @03:37PM (#25885825)

I could easily imagine the Russian government shutting down internet usage for a few hours until they had a better handle on the situation. But, I have to ask, how possible is it that this was instead a lot more people than usual trying to use the internet in that area, because they were all on their smartphones trying to coordinate their activities in bandwidth-hungry ways?

Not saying it's likely, I don't know enough about the tech and infrastructure to evaluate that. Just asking the question in case somebody on HN does know.

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Re:Internet disrupted in Russia amid opposition protests by owl57 on Saturday January 23, 2021 @06:22PM (#25887063)

Unlikely. My fixed internet provider in Moscow suburb went down citing "upstream network failure", came up around 11pm.

Today's load is probably less than a pre-pandemic football game and definitely less than new year, and our networks handle that just fine.

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Re:Internet disrupted in Russia amid opposition protests by stopChanging on Saturday January 23, 2021 @05:22PM (#25886693)

I'm wondering the same thing.

The article only says this:

"Purposeful internet outages generally have a distinct network pattern used by NetBlocks to determine and attribute the root cause of an outage, a process known as attribution which follows detection and classification stages."

To me they just drop some silly terms and fail to actually explain anything.

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