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Mark (mtenney@megalink.net) wrote:
> Ronald Barron Yokubaitis <rony@texas.net> wrote:
> >On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, Dave Howe wrote:

> >> Of course, at 8:00 PM everything is bad.  The net is just overloaded 
> >> with TV viewers changing pastimes.

> >The Net is *not* bad at 8:00 pm! Your Provider is. Quit blaming the Net 
> >for the shortcomings of your particular Provider.

> The 'Net' is MUCH busier during prime time, hence slower, whether
> your connection by modem is good or bad!  That's a general known.

Oh, is it? And when are you supposing this 'prime time' to be? I'm
sure you've heard of time zones. What's 'prime' on the west coast of
the US is the middle of the night in other places. And also consider
that different uses have different peak times. Home use may well peak
from 8-11 pm local time, but business and academic uses certainly
don't. If you asked a variety of net resources what their peak times
are, say a big local provider, a big national provider, Yahoo, a
popular FTP site like Netscape, a corporate email router, and an
academic research lab, you'd get a bunch of very different
answers. Now spread those answers across all the timezones of Europe,
North America, and East Asia, and I think you'll find that the concept
of a net-wide 'prime time' disappears. The world and the net are big places.
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