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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."
I wasn't aware a few megabytes/hour constituted being a 'power user'. Why do online games always get mentioned in the same sentence as people who download 4 gigabyte movies every day?
Murphey's fighting Occam, and we're in the stands.
If you filter out all those adverts then you'll do a lot fewer DNS lookups every time you view a page.
It's adverts and multimedia which make the internet feel slow because they create many extra connections, DNS lookups, etc.
Javascript too, sometimes I go to apage with a video on it which is blocked by noscript and I give up clicking "temporarily allow XXX" before I get to the video. It's just not worth it.
Scripts from a dozen sites, adverts from a dozen others, three or four flash animations....
"There's your problem", as Mythbusters would say.
And the solution is a thing called "noscript".
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Your hardcore WoW addict would probably place very little strain on your network, seeing that he wants to have the lowest ping possible. Downloading a lot of stuff would just add latency to the game.
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