Apparently, Wreck It Ralph isn’t the only one with the power to potentially break the internet.

If you believe concerns recently expressed in the national media, hundreds of millions of people staying at home worldwide to avoid coronavirus contamination may threaten the same result.

Between children learning online, parents working remotely from home and self-quarantined people of all ages on Facebook, streaming movies, selling stock, shopping online and current internet usage is at playing computer games, unprecedented levels.

The problem has become so acute across Europe, where government lockdowns have confined even more people to their homes, that Netflix, one of the largest users of internet day to reduce streaming bandwidth, agreed Thursday to reduce streaming quality for the next month.

Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, which provides internet service to the vast majority of county households, also reports a usage spike.

“Pioneer’s peak traffic per day has increased from 15-20%,” Donnie Miller, Pioneer’s department manager for broadband services, said. “While the peak isn’t increasing at an alarming rate, we are seeing the overall usage during the day increase sooner than normal.”

Miller said that usage typically doesn’t peak until evening when people normally are coming home from school and work.

“In our current situation, we are seeing our normal evening usage amounts occurring in the morning and then gradually increase into the evening,” he said. “So while our peak traffic isn’t significantly increasing, our overall traffic throughout the day is increasing.”

The good news is, Pioneer’s system is keeping up with the traffic increase, which is only expected to grow as the response to the virus threat sends more people home.

“Pioneer monitors this traffic daily to make sure our customers do not have issues accessing the services they want to use, such as Facebook, video streaming or online learning,” Miller said. “We have engineered our network to handle this increase in traffic and we expect the usage to grow even more if customers need to spend more time in their homes.”

Representatives of Cloudflare, one of the world’s largest content delivery networks that operates a worldwide system of servers to deliver web content, expressed confidence that the internet will outlive the coronavirus.

The company’s CEO said in a recent online article that worldwide internet traffic has increased in recent weeks, but not to the extent where it threatens to overwhelm the system.

Current increases still don’t equal the spikes during major sporting events like the Super Bowl, the World Cup or the Olympics, he said.