GLASGORMAN Computer Services » Broadbad http://blog.glasgorman.com Making IT Effective, Practical computer solutions for your business, Gorey, Co. Wexford, Ireland. 053 9425652 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Internet Traffic, The Recent Cold Spell and School Children http://blog.glasgorman.com/2010/01/internet-traffic-the-recent-cold-spell-and-school-children/ http://blog.glasgorman.com/2010/01/internet-traffic-the-recent-cold-spell-and-school-children/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:25:53 +0000 admin http://blog.glasgorman.com/?p=218 [...]]]> In 1982 for the last “Big Snow” everybody, particularly school children spent most of their time outside enjoying the fantastic snowy conditions that are so rare Ireland. Mind you, at that time there were no XBox’s, PS3′s, WII’s or for that matter the Internet.

Today things are very different. While walking the dog twice a day over this last cold spell, I very rarely saw children playing in the snow. It was only when I was talking to a collegue in Alpha Broadband (a fixed wireless broadband provider in North Wexford), that I realised what they were all up to.

He proceded to show me the traffic graphs and the traffic rose by over 60% for the period of the cold snap. There was also a corresponding drop in traffic today when the kids went back to school.  He did also note that based on his graphs most school children don’t get up until at least 12:00.

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