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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. 5 or 6 pm? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    there are things called time zones that make date and corresponding times geography-dependent. such information would be useful when describing something global, like teh internets

  2. Wow wow by no-body · · Score: -1, Redundant

    What time period are you talking about?

    5 - 6 on the east coast is 1 to 2 on the west coast,
    5 - 6 on the west coast is 9 - 10 on the east coast and when and where is the congestion????

  3. 5-6pm in what time zone? by hicks107 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What time zone? Or is it in every time zone?