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Sunday Evening, the New Web Rush Hour

Posted by timothy on from the not-a-creature-was-stirring-except-that-darn-mouse dept.

Barence writes "For anyone who assumes weekday evenings are the worst time to enter the online scrum, it may be a surprise to learn that the peak internet rush hour, when average web speeds slow to a crawl, is in fact Sunday between 5pm and 6pm. This surprise fact came out of Ofcom's recent research that also told us the blindingly obvious news that actual broadband speeds are less than half of those advertised by the ISPs."

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  1. Ok, where's the obivous answer? by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I knew that nobody would watch " + $show_aired_between_5_and_6.

    But seriously, maybe just the TV program sucks around that hour? It seems like that perfect little area between afternoon anime ending and pre-primetime sitcoms, when kids are already at the computer and adults are still.

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  2. TV Program? by argent · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, you mean that thing they used to have, kind of like Youtube with feedback turned off? Does anyone still use that?

  3. Re:The speed thing alwasy pisses me off by Yetihehe · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the problem is between the CO and your ISP's POP, well, that shouldn't happen - it means the LEC screwed up pretty badly somewhere.

    Or a very bad case of too much acronyms.

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  4. Re:The speed thing alwasy pisses me off by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I's from Brizle and I's tells you, it's areal.

  5. Re:The speed thing alwasy pisses me off by z0idberg · · Score: 2, Funny

    Theres nothing worse than a bad case of TMA.