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Egalitarian Thug

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14. Greatly exacerbated by the idiotic state of website design and implementation

Reply to seveneyes (Reply #10)

Sat Oct 19, 2013, 04:06 PM

Oct 2013

that currently plagues the industry. I visited a major website a couple of days ago that wanted to run over 90 scripts, all but three of which came from other servers, for a one page article. Needless to say I will remain ignorant of content from that source.

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Commie-Cast has intentionally slowed down my internet connection! [View all] xfundy Oct 2013 OP

not sure what commie-cast is but shit happens on the internet. bowens43 Oct 2013 #1

Comcast n/t R. P. McMurphy Oct 2013 #2

Commie-Cast? MineralMan Oct 2013 #3

Check the fine print on your contact...... zabet Oct 2013 #4

Comcast has a bandwidth cap, 250 or 300GB per month Spider Jerusalem Oct 2013 #5

Explain bandwidth cap for me please madokie Oct 2013 #6

Basically thats an allowance of data transferred per month Spider Jerusalem Oct 2013 #7

Thx madokie Oct 2013 #8

I'll add that VPN over satellite is like watching paint dry seveneyes Oct 2013 #10

Greatly exacerbated by the idiotic state of website design and implementation Egalitarian Thug Oct 2013 #14

I hear ya. My hosts file is full of widget/junklet IPs seveneyes Oct 2013 #15

Comcast is about as far from being Commie as ... well anything I can think of. :) nt LisaLynne Oct 2013 #9

It's all about control seveneyes Oct 2013 #11

Naw, it's not, but ... LisaLynne Oct 2013 #12

I left something out of the OP. xfundy Oct 2013 #13