[Retric]

Dropped packets are directly related to "page weight" and get worse depending on latency.

400 round trips * 500ms latency is 3 min 20 seconds. This took 20 minutes to load 1 megabyte.

[foobarian]

In other words the bandwidth really is something like 6.6 kbps instead of the nominal rate.

(Really, did anyone ever get the nominal 56k modem rate back in the day?)

[keithpeter]

Yes as it happens, pretty close. Unfortunately British Telecom had a policy of dropping data connections after 2 hours in those days...

[masklinn]

No.