AAaLot, have you noticed any difference between other local NZ sites and offshore?

My experience with connecting to NZ from offshore is that speeds degrade significantly and can only put it down to the distance and limited bandwidth between North America and NZ. This is/was particularly noticable in the evenings (NZT) and we put it down to large corproates coming online and uploading to Head Office back in NA. Given Telecom will have signed performance guarantees with these companies they throttle back other availability.....still this was just the hypothesies that our I.T. Dept. came up with to explain performance degradation.