sovtman
join:2007-04-20
Marlboro, VT
| reply to selling hughes
Re: Deliberate Limited Bandwidth 4pm to 12am ET
said by selling hughes :
I'd guess that the times vary from one transponder to another, but that, as your experience shows, for a given transponder, they happen at the same times in a regular pattern. Your information makes sense. Anticipating congestion, they restrict bandwidth.
BUT, as a long time HN user, I have to say that this is a new experience for me. For years, I have been use to having slower speeds in the evening, sometimes going down to 200-300 for a few hours. I even started using a d/l manager to collect things on the non-peak hours to be a good sat-citizen. But when I saw sub-100 speeds, I thought, FAP? or something's wrong!
Now, I am, in essence, pretty close to FAPed 8 hours a day. |
