http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Has-the-internet-gotten-slower-over-the-past-few-years-27312259 en Sat, 25 May 2013 09:22:35 EDT Sat, 25 May 2013 09:22:35 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Has-the-internet-gotten-slower-over-the-past-few-years-27638349
Always fearfull of cleaning internet cache meaning for example Hotmail page fully loads in up to 9 minutes.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Has-the-internet-gotten-slower-over-the-past-few-years-27638349 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:05:40 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Has-the-internet-gotten-slower-over-the-past-few-years-27597116 ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Has-the-internet-gotten-slower-over-the-past-few-years-27597116 Sat, 06 Oct 2012 21:17:21 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Has-the-internet-gotten-slower-over-the-past-few-years-27597002 --
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. - Albert Einstein]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Has-the-internet-gotten-slower-over-the-past-few-years-27597002 Sat, 06 Oct 2012 20:24:01 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Has-the-internet-gotten-slower-over-the-past-few-years-27573884
About a year and a half ago I found some postings by Jim Gettys (one of the co-creators of the X Window system) that described a similar problem, but went on to explain why this is happening. He even coined a phrase for the underlying problem: Bufferbloat. See »gettys.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/···erbloat/ to start.

To oversimplify the problem: Equipment vendors focus on moving your data from where you are to the next hop (i.e. your Cable headend, DSLAM, cell tower, etc.) as fast as possible, without regard to the nature of the destination of that data. Now that we have cheaper, faster, bigger CPUs and memory, it has become trivial to do this.

After a quick Google search, I did not find a nice overview article, but if you Google for bufferbloat, you will find plenty of material.

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My Roadrunner at home (20/2) and work (10/1) are as fast it can be.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Has-the-internet-gotten-slower-over-the-past-few-years-27327039 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:58:08 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Has-the-internet-gotten-slower-over-the-past-few-years-27314268
Just like with computer hardware, Intel giveth but M$ taketh away.

As the internet speeds up and the average speed of everyone's connection speed is going up people are adding more and more cruft and junk, and fancy graphics, adds, pop-ups, etc. means that websites are now twice the size the were a couple of years ago.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Has-the-internet-gotten-slower-over-the-past-few-years-27314268 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 09:36:38 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Has-the-internet-gotten-slower-over-the-past-few-years-27312259
I want to say yes. I have a 2012 Macbook Pro with a quad core processor, and 12mbps internet connection with 30ms ping times, and my internet definitely feels like it lags much of the time.

Sometimes it will be stuck and I'll hit refresh and it loads just fine. I've tried different browsers, Safari, Firefox, and Chrome, they all seem to have this hanging issue.

I'm just wondering if there are so many 3rd party calls now on various web sites that it really is slowing down the web, or am I being paranoid?

I recently installed AdBlock Pro and added all of those above domains to the blocking, and CultofMac loaded significantly faster, so I really do feel that it is these 3rd party calls slowing down our web experience, but I don't have any scientific evidence to prove it.

This is an open discussion, hopefully to come up with some solutions to this (maybe more ad blocking, changing my DNS settings, etc?), but also to let others vent if they've experienced the same thing.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Has-the-internet-gotten-slower-over-the-past-few-years-27312259 Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:29:42 EDT