Some experts consulted on the American website HowStuffWorks considered this possible, but unlikely. “Nothing, including the internet, is invulnerable to overload. But it has an enormous amount of redundancy and backup in its systems, ”said Paul Levinson, a professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University. The interviewee also highlighted the existence of a number of workers who already used the internet to carry out their activities, thus, this would not impact the system as much. Luke Deryckx, director of technology at Ookla, an analytical and digital metric service, pointed out that there was some impact on the increase in end users connected to the same Wi-Fi network, for an even longer period. The company in which he works detected, for example, levels of deceleration in speed in early March, specifically in the states of California and New York, places that were hit hard by covid-19. To maintain its operations, some companies and platforms have reduced the quality of delivery of content delivery in this pandemic period, as Netflix did even in Brazil. Others also showed some instability in the country, especially those of telephony, internet, TV and videoconference. See the hardest hit this week: Despite this, Luke Deryckx stressed that the change in behavior of global users should not lead to massive disruption. He also pointed out that “the networks are supporting themselves”, even with moments of instability.
