When my cousin bought a new laptop 3 days ago, she asked me to come over to her house and bring the 'essential' installers, and to configure the settings so she can use their shared internet connection in the house. Primitive as it is, they are using wired routers.
The location of their house is far from the main town, far from the big cities and far from the privileges you can get on the two latter locations mentioned. So its given that the internet connection is relatively slower than one should expect.
I'm quite ready for the fact that a site which normally loads in a second in my house will load for 10-15 secs more. But not a minute and above. I guess I should have lowered my expected loading time. The websites just won't load and wont appear fully until 3 or 4 mins.
The problem, though mainly because of the connection, is also greatly affected by the websites visited. Obviously, the first website a new laptop will visit upon click the internet icon is the manufacturer's site. It was a Dell XPS and the Dell mainpage is quite annoying.
It has this big piece of flash which almost covered half of the screen. The links, also flash based, won't appear normally as they should. In one point, when the loading took longer than what the machine expected, it just showed an "X" instead of the image. Also, some website we visited required us to 'Install missing plug-ins'. I hate it and kinda frustrating when you can't view a webpage just because the manufacturer did not include that small software in your browser, and that you have to do it manually. Which means another download.
Why can't these people make a fast loading environment. Not all connection are like yours. Remote areas in small countries will surely be having problems accessing the services they are entitled to when they can't even use the website properly.
