> Maybe I'm way off.. Maybe its view of KISS but as engineers we should > all be looking for the simplest answer. To me they key in Dragos' > post was usage. All physics aside, the warm weather (seasonal) people > go out more, use the internet less. In cold months, we stay in, use > the net more. As for document any of us that run networks have seen > this well document going back many years in our mrgt graphs. But > then maybe he was refering to the physics, and I just try to simplify > things to much.
Usage has an effect on overcommit, yes. However, when you notice that the average connect speed goes down for a day or two after a cold heavy rain, that's not usage. There are not more than one modems connecting(*) to a port. So you have established that something about the quality of the physical layer has been affected. ... JG (*) In the late 1990's, I heard the most astonishing claims made by a new entrant into the Milwaukee ISP market, about how some of the "other" ISP's "shared" lines between customers and this decreased your speeds. They had no clue who I was, so I engaged their technical person for a while who set out to convince me that other ISP's really _did_ do this mythical line- sharing - multiple modems to one port. Until I started talking about the technical aspects, that is. -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
