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] 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 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 -- World Security Pros. Cutting Edge Training, Tools, and Techniques Tokyo, Japan November 4/5 2009 http://pacsec.jp Vancouver, Canada March 22-26 http://cansecwest.com Amsterdam, Netherlands June 16/17 http://eusecwest.com pgpkey http://dragos.com/ kyxpgp