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

Bandwidth i paid for

[nurb432]

If i am sucking up all your bandwidth with my use, well then you shouldn't have oversold.

Pretty soon most everyone will be sucking more and more bandwidth due to on demand movies, music, VoIP, etc. Better get the infrastructure fixed and stop bitching. The ISPs make plenty of money to do it.

If the gas company tried this garbage they would be shut down in a heartbeat.

First ... erm second ... erm third ... crap!

[DeadDecoy]

Stop hogging all the internet, you're clogging my intertubes!