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Empty offices, full homes: Internet feels the coronavirus 'strain'

Residences and neighbourhoods served by lower bandwidth cable and copper-wire connections will be among the first affected.

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Scott Moritz | Bloomberg
With more people working from home to avoid coronavirus, will the internet break? The short answer is probably not. The longer answer is that there will be disruptions.

To protect workers and help stem the spread of Covid-19, companies like Twitter  and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are telling employees who can work from home to stay home. In all, 42 million Americans, about 29 per cent of the US workforce, are able to work from home. And as schools close to keep kids out of harm’s way, the pressure on home networks will grow.
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