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Ask HN: Is this even possible?
Every morning about 6 am, Hawaii time, the internet seems to slow way down. Is it possible that because it is 9 am on the West Coast and 12 pm on the East Coast that there is a surge of use on those coasts that slows it down?
- chc 16y agoIt's not completely impossible in theory (lots of people all doing something at once could have an effect on common infrastructure), but since nobody else seems to have ever noticed the phenomenon — even those for whom the effects would be occurring locally rather than diluted by distance — it doesn't appear to be the case. Maybe your ISP takes the time to do maintenance and diagnostics. That seems more likely.
- anigbrowl 16y agoIt's possible, but you'd need to measure it somehow. If your hunch is correct, then the effect should not show up on weekends and holidays. One low-impact way to measure it might be to write a little script that pings a few specific hosts every minute or 5 minutes and tracks the reply time. Run it for a few weeks and graph the results. I remember years back working for an electricity generator and wondering why we had a spike every evening between 5 and 6 - sure, I thought, with people leaving work consumption should be down? turns out that electric kettles and domestic televisions draw more current in the aggregate than office equipment.
- da5e 16y agoThanks I'll do more checking.