Why Is the Internet So Infuriatingly Slow?

Anti-Globalism writes "The major ISPs all tell a similar story: A mere 5 percent of their customers are using around 50 percent of the bandwidth, sometimes more, during peak hours. While these 'power users' are sharing three-gig movies and playing online games, poor granny is twiddling her thumbs waiting for Ancestry.com to load."

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Re:August 15th 1971

[buswolley]

All this is besides the point. I have a University of California backbone connection. I top out the bandwidth testers on the internet. Stop drooling.