[118042] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Larter)
Fri Oct 9 21:06:46 2009
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 21:05:44 -0400
In-Reply-To: <F56EAD9B-EEDB-44AA-924A-4F8B5E8D4FCE@kyx.net>
From: "Dave Larter" <dave@stayonline.com>
To: "Dragos Ruiu" <dr@kyx.net>,
<swm@emanon.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I may be missing a little bit here by jumping a bit in the thread so
sorry.
What is the difference between weather and seasonal?
I define weather like, well its cloudy and raining here and get in the
car and drive 20 minutes and it is clear and sunny. I would call this
mostly localized, like ground zero. Nice here bad 15 miles/minutes
away.
Seasonal, well I think of Seattle, almost always rain/clouds..., more
than a 15 minute/mile radius. Seasonal reminds me more of say, for
months straight the ground/air is well, frozen. Like the northeast,
where I used to live and will never go back.
Just my .02, I'll shut up now.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dragos Ruiu [mailto:dr@kyx.net]=20
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 8:38 PM
To: swm@emanon.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org; Joe Greco
Subject: Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season?
On 7-Oct-09, at 11:22 AM, Scott Morris wrote:
> I may be having my wires a little crossed (I'm not an electrical
> engineer) but I was always under the impression that manipulation of =20
> the
> physical characteristics like that from heat/dampness didn't reduce =20
> the
> "speed" but the "quality" (like line noise/errors/etc) of the line.
Well, since it's been documented that internet speed / usage varies with
the weather (it gets faster when it's sunny, slower when it rains) I'm =20
sure some
seasonal correlation could be found.
cheers,
--dr
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