Originally Posted by The_Heretic

Now my old computer came from Dell and clearly sucked. But with my new one internet service still lags despite the fact we're using a wireless system from Qwest. The reason is that Qwest runs hundreds of households on a single router meant only for one account instead of expanding their infrastructure to handle the load the way REAL internet providers would. Because there's so few providers in Utah and because the state government is hard core right wing Qwest gets away with shitty service. So it sometimes takes a minute or more for a simple page of these boards to load up. Basically a download speed that- at its peak, is only a few times faster than 56 kb dialup.