@simon @slightlyoff
Nice to see someone writing about this. I was working in China for 18 months, and the Great Firewall and large numbers of people meant that internet back to the states was very, very slow and very lossy every day. Most US sites were nearly unusable - I was able to get much of the information I needed only by using download managers that would fetch the data with all the needed retries, and viewing it offline. At the time I wondered just how badly people even in the US with slower internet could even cope.