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2 edits | here is why. To "complete" loading a page, even a well designed one like news.yahoo.com, there are too many requests to do all in parallel (on default configured browsers) and some requests wait, or are caused by, the completed loading of previous requests.
Anything with terrible latency multiplies perceived loading time many times as the serial nature of some of the request blocks involves waiting for the turnaround multiple times.
The DNS issue is different and IMO less important, if you use a site you've previously used, it is probably cached (unless the site uses a variety of different and annoying ad services which always seem to involve new DNS lookups).
Anyone based overseas using US sites immediately recognizes how annoying a high latency connection becomes, and that involes usually no more than a 250ms turnaround. If a wireless network tends to offer 500ms or more latency then you are standing the equivalent of 24,000 miles away from the site. This can be annoying if you're actually standing on a san francisco street, trying to load news.yahoo.com. |
