slate.com — Everyone hates their Internet service provider. And with good cause: In the age of ubiquitous Internet access, Web service in America is still often frustratingly slow. Tired of being the villain, telecom companies have assigned blame for this problem to a new bad guy. He's called the "bandwidth hog,"
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echomoteSep 6, 2008
Yeah because overheating CPUs make your ping reply time 300ms
opticwindSep 6, 2008
I don't pass off my opinion as fact, but I've been living in different cities of Japan and I've yet to see anything remotely fast. Internet at major public places, like a public computer, is lightning fast but at home it often sucks.
tomhancocksSep 6, 2008
You may have a fast connection, but you have to keep in mind that you are only one side of the connection. The servers your accessing have there upload/download speeds and may be catering to a lot of people. Just because your able to retrieve data at 8Mb/sec doesn't automatically mean the server your accessing is able to at that moment in time.
oxymoron69Sep 8, 2008
I do that all the time... Even DL DVD ISO's... what's your point?
oxymoron69Sep 8, 2008
Well let's clarify, if chrome can DO MORE THINGS IN PARALLEL than say my old browser, then it renders the page a lot faster. I understand that chrome cannot increase my basic sync rate of my DSL line, and to think anything different would be absolutely retarded. Sadly you folks can't seem to grasp the thought I was trying to share. Silly americans, when will you all just die in a nuclear holocaust...
adub2Sep 22, 2008
Still, this proposed plan would compromise all the high level users who blog, post reviews and other things to raise the overall level of the internet itself. The high prices could force them to stop, leaving the rest of us without information.