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Originally Posted by cignus_pfaccari

It's amazingly interesting how, occasionally, at (say) 8 PM, my connection will go from great to kaput. And then stay that way until, oh, 10 PM. On the dot.

That *has* to be them.

Brad

That is because cable is a series instead of parallel. Ie if everyone in your neighborhood (or heaven forbid, a apartment complex) starts requesting data at roughly the same time then everyone's throughput diminishes.