Texting at midnight

[HOGEPH]

Will there be the usual 60 gazillion phone texts sent at midnight or is everyone using Whatsapp these days?

Might leave the mobile networks with some capacity I suppose..

[The Nur]

I think WhatsApp and group messages have cut down on a lot of the network load these days tbh.

[SimonTheSailor]

But what does What's App go through ? Must go through something ?

[Defcon5]

Whatsapp uses WiFi/mobile data

[Butter Face]

SimonTheSailor said:

But what does What's App go through ? Must go through something ?

They have their own servers. All flows through them.

I don’t think it’s as much of an issue as it used to be

[ambuletz]

i was actually thinking about this earlier today. I kind of miss the days of 10years ago when you would send a text at midnight and your friend won't get it until 11am.

[Butter Face]

ambuletz said:

i was actually thinking about this earlier today. I kind of miss the days of 10years ago when you would send a text at midnight and your friend won't get it until 11am.

Simpler times eh?!

[SimonTheSailor]

Defcon5 said:

Whatsapp uses WiFi/mobile data

So if it uses mobile data then it's using your network ?

[ambuletz]

Butter Face said:

ambuletz said:

i was actually thinking about this earlier today. I kind of miss the days of 10years ago when you would send a text at midnight and your friend won't get it until 11am.

Simpler times eh?!

ikr.

and a text mattered because it cost 10p to send. or whatever SMS allowance you had. can't be wasting £3 just to send out texts to all your mates.

[Mr E]

SimonTheSailor said:

So if it uses mobile data then it's using your network ?

But not an SMSC with limited capacity that gets swamped one night a year.
On air data bandwidth also dramatically greater now.

Of course I’d expect a lot of the new year messages to be multi-Mb picture/video rather than a handful of bytes of text.

[ST_Nuts]

Anyone else having difficulties getting WhatsApp to connect? Was fine up til now and just won't connect now. Could it be too busy?!

[ambuletz]

ST_Nuts said:

Anyone else having difficulties getting WhatsApp to connect? Was fine up til now and just won't connect now. Could it be too busy?!

I have whatsapp.web and all of today the connection has gone on and off.

[baptistsan]

Shame Whatsapp is currently down

So no, not just you ST.

[Mr E]

ambuletz said:

I have whatsapp.web and all of today the connection has gone on and off.

If something that surely must be virtualised cannot spin up appropriate capacity to meet a completely predictable need, someone is probably getting fired.

Edited by Mr E on Sunday 31st December 19:22

[ambuletz]

Mr E said:

ambuletz said:

I have whatsapp.web and all of today the connection has gone on and off.

If something that surely must be virtualised cannot slightly spin up appropriate capacity to meet a completely predictable need, someone is probably getting fired.

makes me wonder what affect it's had on regular texts. i'm pretty sure the past few years i have gotten happy NY texts very close to midnight. even when i was outside the EU.

[Mr E]

ambuletz said:

makes me wonder what affect it's had on regular texts. i'm pretty sure the past few years i have gotten happy NY texts very close to midnight. even when i was outside the EU.

All virtualised (at least the ones I used to look at) for a while now - capacity a fairly trivial issue to solve.