Re: (PM) PORTMAN

Dick St.Peters (stpeters@NetHeaven.com)
Sat, 7 Feb 1998 23:57:37 -0500

_Drop_ in usage on weekends?!!

Our usage is least on Mondays and increases monotonically each day,
reaching a peak on Sunday. This is true for every NAS at every POP.

Stephen Fisher writes:
> Aah.. we're not that large and don't really have much of a drop in usage
> over weekends either.
>
> On Sat, Feb 07, 1998 at 05:13:16PM -0500, Jon Lewis wrote:
> > On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Stephen Fisher wrote:
> >
> > > > Yup, all weekend is fine with me. I have no less than 50 free modems in
> > > > this pool all weekend. They will think, holy cow, my ISP kicks ass! I'm
> > > > still on! No way any other ISP would do that. :-)
> > >
> > > Why/how do you never have less than 50 modems free? :-)
> >
> > When you get into the hundreds of ports, it's no big deal to see several
> > dozen lines go unused all weekend long.

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