Does Internet Speed Vary by Season?

Sat Oct 10 01:05:44 UTC 2009

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 at kyx.net] 
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 8:38 PM
To: swm at emanon.com
Cc: nanog at 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  
> the
> physical characteristics like that from heat/dampness didn't reduce  
> 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  
sure some
seasonal correlation could be found.

cheers,
--dr

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