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Yep. The bottom-feeding end of the consumer broadband industry is ruthlessly competitive. Customer support is one way they save costs (no doubt very busy with all of the extra users in the daytime encountering difficulties). Another is potentially on their network. At the evenings and weekends, when the traffic peaks usually occur, much of the traffic is streaming media such as TV (and porn) - which the bigger players network-edge-cache. VPNs traffic cannot be cached. Do they have the backhaul capacity?
One thing to note about working form home - Home broadband is not guaranteed and has no SLA up time compared to business broadband. A lot of companies will start to throttle speeds once the network gets congested and speeds will start to slow down a lot - again business specific broadband has QOS (Quality of Service) SLAs
Yep. The bottom-feeding end of the consumer broadband industry is ruthlessly competitive. Customer support is one way they save costs (no doubt very busy with all of the extra users in the daytime encountering difficulties). Another is potentially on their network. At the evenings and weekends, when the traffic peaks usually occur, much of the traffic is streaming media such as TV (and porn) - which the bigger players network-edge-cache. VPNs traffic cannot be cached. Do they have the backhaul capacity?
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