if you're like me you're probably working from home right now which means
relying on your home Wi-Fi network VPNs and other networking tools to do your
job effectively but are they ready for the massive spike in traffic they're
gonna see in the next few weeks stick around hey everyone welcome back
to Today in Tech I'm Juliet Beauchamp and something might look a little bit
different yep you guessed it I'm working from home for the next few weeks as our
office mandates a work from home policy many of you are very likely in the same
boat working from home amid coronavirus concerns so hope you like the setup let
me know if you want me to change anything anyway let's launch into what
our topic today is about which is about relying on home Wi-Fi networks and VPNs
to do your job effectively and if you're like me you're probably working off of
your home Wi-Fi which you may have noticed is not exactly as fast as the
Wi-Fi you're used to at the office that's because when you're working with
your home Wi-Fi you might be dealing with whatever your ISP offers whereas
your school your office is going to have those enterprise-grade solutions so what
are we supposed to do while we're working off of our home Wi-Fi we're
probably going to overloading our system and our networks with a ton of traffic
that it may not be used to we're going to be doing video conferencing maybe you
need to utilize telehealth services to connect with your doctor and maybe your
kids are home from school and streaming educational videos that's a lot of
really heavy duty traffic that our home Wi-Fi networks are going to have to get
used to and while more remote areas could experience a lot of strain on
their networks and perhaps even experience bottlenecking slower speeds
wireless networks are assuring us that they're mostly prepared to handle the
tasks AT&T and Verizon are some of the providers that are saying they're ready
for this increased traffic there's the possibility that they could increase
capacity if necessary and that could become very necessary as more of us are
mandated to work from home here in the US some areas and departments of our
government are actually working to make sure that broadband providers are really
ready for this massive influx of work from home traffic they're asking
broadband providers the FCC is asking broadband providers to relax data cap
policies when appropriate also to prioritize the need of hospitals
which I'm sure as you all can imagine are going to be experiencing a huge
influx in traffic both physical traffic and network traffic in the coming weeks
and months here in the US there's also a big group of senators that are
pressuring ISPs or internet service providers to accommodate this huge spike
in telework and telehealth and they're also asking them to provide free or at
cost broadband to students who may lack it to ease that transition to online
learning of course this situation does continue
to evolve and networks as well as VPNs are probably going to have to adjust to
a massive spike in traffic in the coming weeks and months
the CEO of Atlas VPN has even said that VPN usage could increase by 150 percent
by the end of the month we'll be keeping an eye on things as things change and
evolve this is of course a very rapidly evolving situation we're going to be
covering a lot about how to meet the needs of your remote workforce and if
you're someone who is now having to work from home for perhaps the first time or
do a significant portion of their work from home maybe you're not used to that
we're going to be having a ton of videos about tips and tricks how to best
utilize collaboration tools and anything else do you guys think of be sure to
leave them in the comments we are going to have a video coming up this week
about collaboration tools how to use them to best facilitate your remote
workforce so be sure to look out for that coming this week thank you all so
much for watching this episode of today in tech I hope you liked it if you guys
have any suggestions for future topics that you want us to cover about working
from home please leave us in the comments I want to have here how you're
adjusting to this work from home policy and period and if you guys have any
ideas about how I can further decorate myself behind me please leave a comment
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