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Originally Posted by Hell's Child
With regards to the "off-peak" usage, from what I can tell, it would be very difficult to monitor. Also the main reason behind the "peak-times" being peak times, is because that's when most people are in and can use the service. I reguarly set downloads up to go overnight (off-peak) but if all high users start doing this then off-peak won't be off peak anymore?! Do you get what I mean?
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The point is that the off-peak will
not be monitored. That’s simplicity itself. At present, all hours are monitored. You have answered your own question about off-peak becoming less off-peak. [[the "peak-times" being peak times, is because that's when most people are in and can use the service]] Exactly so, they will not
all go to the off-peak night-time sleeping hours, making those hours a peak time. The idea is to encourage the heavier usage, such as downloads, to those hours, thus spreading the load of usage. At the moment it is a free-for-all scramble for usage.
The main overwhelming fact is that, were all users to download (under their limit)
at the same time you would get massive congestion. So you can see that by spreading the load, and encouraging more users to the off-peak times. The chances of that greater congestion situation is
greatly reduced.
P.S. Sociable, I stand corrected on the days.