said by Davesnothere:
Zap the Cap judges peak hours to be 8PM-12Midnight, and both TSI Marc and Rocca from Start have recently posted in various DSLR threads that the highest peak demand for bandwidth usually falls a few minutes after 10PM each night.
It might be useful if Marc would post a screenshot of a typical daily demand graph for, say, their pipe to Rogers or one of the other incumbents, to illustrate just how much contrast there is in demand when you compare 10PM and 4AM.
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I miss the old days when you could see bandwidth graphs for TSI's backbone connections...
Well, here's a current weekly graph from Torix for an approximation. The black line is midnight, and the blue line represents 2 hours either side of midnight. So, you can see that the peak dropoff starts at around 10PM and then accelerates to midnight. By 2AM, it's half what it was at the peak, and by 4-5AM it's less than a quarter. Looks like by about 8AM (9AM on weekends, LOL) it's back where it was at 2AM (guess they didn't pull those numbers out a hat)... but nothing really picks up speed until around noon.