Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!nosun!illian!sopwith!snoopy
From: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy T. Beagle)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: London England and modem speeds
Keywords: How fast can they be? Problems?
Message-ID: <25@sopwith.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 88 00:21:53 GMT
References: <311@hrc.UUCP> <41536@pyramid.pyramid.com> <2556@sultra.UUCP>
Reply-To: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy T. Beagle)
Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
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In article <2556@sultra.UUCP> dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan) writes:
| Of course, then again, the line quality *should* be better
| during business hours (when it is more expensive).

Why should the line quality be better during the day just because you
are paying more for it?  Charges are lower at night to encourage people
to shift their calls to the night.  This extracts more useful work out
of the telco equipment which would otherwise be mostly idle at night.
It also reduces the peak load during the day, which reduces the amount
of equipment needed.

Dig out your old Econ 101 book, and look up the chart labeled "Supply and
Demand".

You pay more during the day because that's when the demand is, not because
the phone lines magically have greater bandwidth and/or signal/noise then.

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