Peak times

[Tricky]

Now, I know that bandwidth peak time starts at midnight, and applies to all the data that downloads after that time (rather than from the time the download starts); but the question is: Midnight GMT or local (= BST as it's now summer)? 
My resource-hogging son is back from uni and although I tell him to wait until after midnight before kicking off large X-box DLs, I still seem to have fairly hefty peak-time figures.  It could be that he's starting at midnight, but that's really 11pm in GMT, so he's sucking in >1Gb before the off-peak cuts in...

[Steve]

  Rick

I've always assumed that the times were local, we could probably give a definitive answer tomorrow

[Simon]

As above. 

[Rik]

And again, it is local time.

[Tricky]

Thanks guys!  That makes sense.
I'll just have to stress to my lad that he's paying for any over-run on my allowance...

[Rik]

Good luck with that.

[Bill]

Thanks guys!  That makes sense.
I'll just have to stress to my lad that he's paying for any over-run on my allowance...

Assuming you're running Windows and have an SNMP-capable router, you could use PRTG to see what he's using and when.

The free version will handle 3 (5?- can't remember) connections.

[Ray]

 

[Baz]

looking at Tricky's post about peak times, surely its OFF PEAK that starts at midnight, unless ive been getting it wrong all this time 


from the IDNet page


Peak times are 9:00am to midnight - Off-Peak times are midnight to 9:00am

[Rik]

Correct, Baz, we all assumed a slip of the keyboard.

[Tricky]

Correct, Baz, we all assumed a slip of the keyboard.

Doh!

[Baz]

Correct, Baz, we all assumed a slip of the keyboard.

indeed I slip on the keybord many a time.

fat finger syndrome 

[Rik]

 

[Tricky]

Assuming you're running Windows and have an SNMP-capable router, you could use PRTG to see what he's using and when.

The free version will handle 3 (5?- can't remember) connections.

Now 10 connections!
I shall look into this...
Thanks for the link