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."

Comments

Not so slow

[Anonymous Coward]

See? First post

Re:Not so slow

[Anonymous Coward]

the internet is so slow cause timmy touches himself at night

Re:What does this mean?

[ergean]

Do you mean that spam-bot that granny has on her desk is slow accessing internet pages?