Dial, Cable, DSL and When

[Weird Harold]

A thought occured to me and I'd like some data to determine if my guess is off-the-wall.

I'll explain tommorrow.

please check two choices -- your connection and the time(s) you normally are logged onto Lit.

 

[SilverVeil]

I am so spoiled. I love my cable connection.

 

[April]

I hate asking these stupid questions, but here goes another one.

Is "your time" WH's time or my time?

 

[Guest]

Cable broadband.

Any time between 6am and midnight.Depends on what else I have to do.

 

[Tantanah]

Cable.

Right now I'm on vacation so I log on at anytime.

 

[kotori]

please check two choices -- your connection and the time(s) you normally are logged onto Lit.

oops, i picked a couple of "normal" times. before and after work hours

 

[Soblue]

I really miss having cable dammit.

I'm on dial up and visit here before work and after the kids are in bed.

 

[lovetoread]

Cable.

Amd I am here at all times of the day,but mainly during the 8 am to 6 pm time period.

April,I think he was talking about your time,whenever that may be.

 

[April]

I thought so too, LTR. I'm just gonna go ahead and vote then. Damn time zones.

Sorry, WH, if I skewed your numbers. I checked the 8 am to noon, noon to 6 pm, and 9 pm to midnight. Just so's ya know.

 

[sexy-girl]

voted cable but i cant seem to do a multiple vote to say when im here which is probably for the best because it can be any time

 

[Asendin]

cable , cable , cable . wishing T1..

 

[Orwell84]

DSL. I'm abusing my computer at work visiting here. Don't have one at home. I generally try to pop in early in the morning before people start running around the office and pearing over my shoulder, and toward the end of the day.

 

[Dillinger]

I never knew you could do a poll with more than one choice, that is so cool!

I'm most often on a cable connection but I'm here at all different hours. I picked 9 to midnight since those are the hours I'm usually not distracted by work or other things.

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

Satellite.

I visit Lit. between 6 AM and 9 PM

 

[Mae13]

*cry*

Is it bad to dream about the day cable or DSL will be available in my little town here? I'm in pain having to go back to ISDN!

 

[april-wine]

Cable......yayyyyyyyy


But I have the best of both worlds, my schedule at the moment allows me to log on during the day crowd.......Then during the night crowd run......

 

[KillerMuffin]

This is my time to write (per familial agreement) so I'm wasting time here most of the day instead of writing.

*kicks self in the ass*

 

[April]

*bump*

 

[Weird Harold]

Ok, the poll didn't really give me all that I was looking for, but the reason for the poll is....

*drumroll please*

I wondered if the slowdown in BB activity tht almost always occurs at 0300 PDT was a result of people with dial-up connections being predominate in that time frame for some reason.

That doesn't appear to be the case. Although it isn't definitively disproven.

What I've noticed is that at this time fo the day (whereever you are) a new thread sometimes will receive five or six replies before I can refresh the page, no matter how manyusers are listed on the front page.

At 0300, it takes five to ten minutes for the first response/view to show up on a new thread -- about the amount of time it takes to heck for new posts and refresh the page again with my dial-up connection.

That difference in response time isn't proportional to the the difference in the number of users on Lit at the two time. It's more like a geometric relationship than a direct proportional relationship and the difference just puzzled me.

 

[Dillinger]

Very puzzling.

Could it be just a general net slowdown at that time? Perhaps the routers and DNS servers are all just extra busy at that time?

 

[April]

6 am for the east coast, noon for western Europe. I dunno.

 

[Weird Harold]

Very puzzling.

Could it be just a general net slowdown at that time? Perhaps the routers and DNS servers are all just extra busy at that time?

That's a possibility. I had previously consider the lack of activity was probably a result of it just being a "between time" although 0300 PDT is 0600 EDT when all of the east coast businesses are catching up on the over-night happenings. Perhaps that surge of internet activity is blocking the foreign contingents here at Lit from fast responses in some way.

 

[Lasher]

I wondered if the slowdown in BB activity tht almost always occurs at 0300 PDT was a result of people with dial-up connections being predominate in that time frame for some reason.

I think there might be a slightly more simple answer.

3 AM Pacific time is 6 AM Eastern time and if you check the demographics you'll see that more the half of the US population still lives in the Eastern time zone and that the predominance of internet users in the English speaking world are still from the US.

My hunch is that even people who live their lives vicariously though the internet eventually do fall asleep and that the vast majority of them are actually sleeping at 6 AM.

So my guess is that there are fewer responses because there are fewer people paying attention.

But I really wouldn't know, because I live in the Eastern time zone and at 6 AM I'm asleep, lol.

 

[Wiggles]

56k and slower from 6-9 p.m.

My connection usually ends up at about 32k.

 

[sabbathstorm]

I use DSL and normally post from 6pm-midnight my time. Weekends are a free for all though