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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Like the man said...

[Joce640k]

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".