Zak Stoltz

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Dear Editor,

At this very moment, I’m sitting in my room waiting for a video I have to watch for class to download. It’s going at a speed of 4 KB/sec and has an estimated 3 hours remaining. You can do the math to figure out how big the file is, but the point is this: The Internet is STILL painfully slow. And I know it’s not just the site I’m downloading from because it just took exactly 11 minutes to fully load a two-minute episode of “Will It Blend” on YouTube.

So I have to ask: ITS, what’s the deal? This has been going on for far too long, and there’s something seriously wrong when it takes less time to torrent the latest episode of Heroes than it does to download a lecture for class that’s a quarter the size. I’m sure I’m not the only one who would appreciate the issuance of a formal statement explaining exactly why we’re stuck in the dark ages of dial-up on a (pricey) college campus in 2008. So please, PLEASE, ITS, let the students know why this is happening and when we can expect it to be over. It’s affecting more than just our ability to download copious amounts of porn.

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