Surely peak/off-peak as far as telecoms etc goes works because at 'off-peak' times, most folk are asleep! Companies *know* that at off-peak times usage is guaranteed to be lower.
However with Internet Usage, peak/off-peak is blurred. If everyone set downloads away at night, night would be peak! It'd be then the network suffered congestion. Computers can be left on downloading all night too. It's hard for a human to talk in their sleep and get the benefit from off-peak phone calls.
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Surely peak/off-peak as far as telecoms etc goes works because at 'off-peak' times, most folk are asleep! Companies *know* that at off-peak times usage is guaranteed to be lower. However with Internet Usage, peak/off-peak is blurred. If everyone set downloads away at night, night would be peak! It'd be then the network suffered congestion. Computers can be left on downloading all night too. It's hard for a human to talk in their sleep and get the benefit from off-peak phone calls.