There is some element of horses for courses here. If you want to move 100KB of info, the pidgeon is going to lose big time. So to some extent the race was not exactly fair.
However, compared to so many other countries, our internet is still in the dark ages. I'd been strongly recommended to watch a 45 minute Matt Cutts video on SEO at a webmasters forum site the other day. After downloading 20MB I only had gotten 15 seconds into the video. It may be an MP3 but it is far from optimised for transmission over the net.
So I bitch about how much bandwidth this is going to chew up, and that it's going to take a day or 2 to download. And everyone there is going "What's your problem? You click - you watch." The concept of slow broadband (and caps) is that foreign to them.
Just goes to show. You don't know how bad the service you're getting is until you've received much better service.
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