Slow websites

[The JoJo]

This is getting ridiculous. Modern web-sites are starting to have so many advertisements and java thingies, that they are beginning to be slow on multiple gigahertz computers with 10-100Mb/s lines!

Just take anandtech or any other of there "popular" sites. Jeez....

I've just downloaded firefox, and I'm about to put blocks on EVERY DAMM GADGET AND AD POSSIBLE!

Not funny. I still have to work with peoples computers that use modems, and just downloading new drivers or something similar takes ages as the sites load so slowly.

:eekers:

 

[sechs]

It's all about the FTP....

 

[blakerwry]

unfortunately many manufacturers dont have decent FTP sites. Things arent organized, files are not named to describe their contents, there's no way to search through the drivers.... pretty crappy.

 

[e_dawg]

Yes, last-mile bandwidth is often not the bottleneck at all, but rather, shared bandwidth at the CO/head-end, inter-network latencies, server capacity, and packet fragmentation/loss. People with broadband are often disappointed at how slow the net can be during prime-time, especially with DSL, which people assume to be totally unshared and therefore unsusceptible to activity-induced slowdowns (which is just not true).

 

[blakerwry]

Any good ISP is going to have alot of bandwidth.. Enough so that at peak times the effect of traffic will be barely noticable.

Although somtimes I wonder how time warner for instance can offer 3Mbit down to hundreds of throusands of customers and still maintain enough bandwidth.... but they do.

 

[sechs]

No they don't. Try using Roadrunner during peak evening hours on a full node.

 

[blakerwry]

i've never had a problem in the 2 locations I've lived and used road runner.. I always get atleast 95% of the bandwidth I'm supposed to (3Mbit down, 384kbps up)

Maybe the nodes around here just aren't full.