Does Internet Speed Vary by Season?

Sun Oct 11 02:41:36 UTC 2009

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009, Fred Baker wrote:

> Are we talking about bit rate, which one might expect to be modified  
> by environmental characteristics and is in fact very tightly  
> controlled to prevent that, or traffic volume?

Not true with modem type technologies, where the available transmission
rate is a function of how many available frequency space slices are
deemed to be "good" at any one time.

This isn't really like SDH (from what I've read of SDH, anyway.)

Adrian