I don't know the specifics of your 1:00 pm internet issue, but mine turned out to be my browser.
My internet connection slowed on my Win 7 but not my 8.1 today around noon PDT. Several reboots did not fix it. Firefox had been reminding me about an available update so I ran it. It took a very long time and initially didn't work, so I exited Firefox then tried it again and it worked, but slowly. Then I rebooted and now it is back to normal. The update was to Version 115.1 ESR which is a special version for unsupported operating systems Win 7, 8, and 8.1. I had already updated my 8.1 yesterday as part of my normal updating process, not because it was slow.
Correction: The Firefox 115.1 ESR update installation must have failed because it is still reminding me to install it. So something else must have been slowing down my Win 7 and it just happened to stop doing that after rebooting at that time. Several previous reboots didn't fix it.
