In cyberspace, no one hears your screams. I've decided no matter how advanced technology gets, we will never be satisfied. I used to write for a PBS station on an ancient IBM 8088 computer that took about 15 seconds just to save text. Now, I have a DSL connection to the Internet and catch myself getting slightly annoyed when a page doesn't load damn near instantly. The latter, for I had heard horror stories of people who waited ages for DSL technicians or had tech problems that would make employees of NASA wet their beds.
Nothing is as it seems.
It is the matrix of phone connections which must be within about 12,000 feet of your home or your DSL signal degrades. After a couple weeks of processing, my local phone company sent out a technician to drop a line, the DSL circuit or local loop, from the pole to the box on the side of my house. Fine, except that I discovered later he disconnected my landlady's phone line. I then had to wade through a few calls to get it reinstalled that day. He derided the fact I still used Windows 95 and had a Pentium 200.