Part of this is seasonal traffic trends. Here in the North East when the weather starts getting hostile around November we see a big uptick in bandwidth usage a

Part of this is seasonal traffic trends. Here in the North East when the weather starts getting hostile around November we see a big uptick in bandwidth usage among our customers. Utilization tends to peak in January and starts breaking as soon as the weather warms up. You can see a less dramatic dip on this chart from the same period last year. With the long stretches of cold weather all over the US this year I suspect ISPs all over the country got hit hard. It's also the season for many millions of new devices to get unwrapped and turned on.