Flutterby™! :

Back in October I <link url="/archives/1999_Oct/17_OnISPeconomics.html">ranted about ISP economics</link>. Recently I was working on a document about web design, and came up with some theoretical numbers on getting under that 8-12 second barrier to a usable page, and then wondered why I wasn't seeing anywhere near the theoretical response on my Ricochet link. It turns out that I am, but only from a select group of top tier ISPs. Interestingly, most of those ISPs are small ones like highertech.net (where Flutterby is hosted), the big ones are routinely giving me downloads in the 500 bytes/sec or lower range). Net service isn't yet a commodity.